Yamato Battleship

[New York Rose]

26-inch thick armor from Japanese Yamato class battleship pierced by a US Navy 16-inch gun. The armor is on display at the US Navy Museum.
I just thought this was interesting and cool..

 

[Maximus Cashicus]

Wow, must have been some gun!

 

[DarkMoonEnigma]

Wow, must have been some gun!

When you're shooting at a battleship, it HAS to be "some gun" -- or you get your ass kicked.

 

[New York Rose]

When you're shooting at a battleship, it HAS to be "some gun" -- or you get your ass kicked.

With Memorial Day coming up..I was watching the "Hunt for Red October" and seen this picture,I thought to myself.."That had to have been a massive gun to travel through water and yet still do that."

 

[Maximus Cashicus]

I still haven't seen the hunt for red October lol

 

[Maximus Cashicus]

Hr

When you're shooting at a battleship, it HAS to be "some gun" -- or you get your ass kicked.

Hehe, that's true enough

 

[DarkMoonEnigma]

I still haven't seen the hunt for red October lol

Author Tom Clancy was a brilliant writer. It's unfortunate that he died on Oct 1st, 2013.

 

[Maximus Cashicus]

He wrote pelican games, the client right? Haven't seen those either but I'm pretty sure Tom Cruise was in a couple of the movies

 

[DarkMoonEnigma]

He wrote pelican games, the client right? Haven't seen those either but I'm pretty sure Tom Cruise was in a couple of the movies

Check out the link I gave you.

 

[Maximus Cashicus]

G

Check out the link I gave you.

Got it, I see I'm completely wrong lol

 

[Hovno]

The Iowa-class battleships really were amazing...those 16in guns fired a shell that weighed like 2200 pounds (about the same weight as a small car) and had a range of 25miles or so. I read somewhere once that when USS Missouri fired a broadside (all 9 main guns at once), it would move the 45,000ton ship 12 feet in the other direction. /boggle.

Oh, and The Pelican Brief and The Client were written by John Grisham I think...

 

[Maximus Cashicus]

Wow, moving 45,000 tons 12 feet is insane! Nice info Hovno

Ah yeah, your right John Grisham it was

 

[Kendra]

I remember looking it up when they first released the motherships

And this one was definitely a mother of a ship..


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato


Here a pic of it before the hole

 

[New York Rose]

I still haven't seen the hunt for red October lol

Oh Max ...You have got to see that movie!

 

[New York Rose]

I remember looking it up when they first released the motherships

And this one was definitely a mother of a ship..


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_battleship_Yamato


Here a pic of it before the hole

Oh I love that picture.
I think as my grandfather and uncle were in the Navy..I remember their stories and just think how loud it must have been when those would shoot.

 

[Kendra]

Oh Max ...You have got to see that movie!

yeah max it is really good

 

[Maximus Cashicus]

Must get around to watching it, don't seem to watch movies at all recently with this game. Somebody loaned me Wolf of Wall St because I wanted to see it, had to eventually give it back because I had it three weeks, I still haven't seen it lol.

 

[Jo Brazil]

Was in the Navy, stationed at NavSta Long Beach, right next to the New Jersey's pier, when I was in. They Fired off a single one of those guns once, for memorial day one year... OMG...
My entire ship rattled with the sound concussion, and we were nearly a mile away.