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October 3rd, 2014

Broadside

We return to our Ships category for the next two days. This morning we have an amazing picture taken by a US Navy helicopter of one of the American Iowa-class battleships firing a salvo of 16″ guns. The massive power of these weapons is evident. The flash from the guns is large enough to show […]

Broadside

We return to our Ships category for the next two days. This morning we have an amazing picture taken by a US Navy helicopter of one of the American Iowa-class battleships firing a salvo of 16″ guns. The massive power of these weapons is evident. The flash from the guns is large enough to show up on the ship’s radar, and the pressure wave beautifully deforms the ocean surface. This blast would hurl a 2700 lb armour-piercing shell almost 24 miles, well over the horizon. The blast from a single shell could level tress for 400 feet in all directions; this was useful in the jungles of Vietnam for clearing helicopter landing zones. This increidble image makes a great wallpaper for any naval historians out there.

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