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glhs837
Power with Control
Damn, imagine what that could do to up armor a vehicle. Think I saw a pic somewhere recently of a chunk of I think it was 26 inch battle armor from a Japanese battleship that had a hole in it made by one of those 16 inch guns....
http://vpstestgunscom.c.presscdn.co...d_by_a_usn_16_inch_50_cal_shell_nuff_said.jpg
Story is that while an Iowa class ship neer faced the Yamamoto, some of it's armor was found after the war and right across the river, they got answer the question, "could the Yamamoto have taken a shot from the 26 inch gun and made it?" Answer as the pic shows is of course not.
But I'm sure whatever the Muslim nutjobs were wearing was better than that 26 inch armor.
http://vpstestgunscom.c.presscdn.co...d_by_a_usn_16_inch_50_cal_shell_nuff_said.jpg
Story is that while an Iowa class ship neer faced the Yamamoto, some of it's armor was found after the war and right across the river, they got answer the question, "could the Yamamoto have taken a shot from the 26 inch gun and made it?" Answer as the pic shows is of course not.
But I'm sure whatever the Muslim nutjobs were wearing was better than that 26 inch armor.
Larry Gude
Strung Out
Nobody had 26" guns. Iowa class sported 9 16". And it's the Yamato. Her and her sister Musashi were the biggest SOB's ever made, 72,000 tons, to Iowa's 45,000 and the Japs carried 18" main guns.
And I don't know what that pic is from. It ain't either of the sisters. They were both killed by American fly boys.
glhs837
Power with Control
Nobody had 26" guns. Iowa class sported 9 16". And it's the Yamato. Her and her sister Musashi were the biggest SOB's ever made, 72,000 tons, to Iowa's 45,000 and the Japs carried 18" main guns.
And I don't know what that pic is from. It ain't either of the sisters. They were both killed by American fly boys.
Sorry, I crossed up the gun inches with the armor thickness. The armor was the same type as that used by those two ships, not from the ship themselves.
Larry Gude
Strung Out
I figured. I just used it as an opportunity to talk about that class a bit. It's a stunning era and the two Yamoto class boats were incredible as were the Iowa's and...total wastes of time and money. Man, if those things had been carriers!!!!
Posted as we approach the era of asymmetric responses that will soon include "carrier killer" missile systems.
It never ends.
Larry Gude
Strung Out
Excellent point.
remember until Pearl Harbor - Billy Mitchel aside, no one was expecting Air Power to defeat a Navy's big gun battle ships
and the mentality [imho] was - Admirals were still expecting to see big gunnery duals between battleships and other's
the Iowa was used as an Artillery platform in the days before missiles .... for off shore bombardment in Korea, Vietnam ... and I think Beirut
honestly though, I thing the BB's spent most of the war lending AA to protect Carriers in the surface groups