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[JMD]

You saw this picture alot if you were Navy. I had a large print in my office and that was signed by the last commanding officer Moosally, I was kinda pumped about that at the time. After reading a couple of books about the explosion not so much.

 

[Chief Sapulpa]

I wonder how many light bulbs filaments failed after this salvo? When they fired the 6” gun on my guided missile cruiser the bulbs would fail in the fire room.

 

[WoodsCraft]

I remember being in the Army when Reagan made the decision to bring those battle wagons back into service as part of the 600 ship build up for the Navy. I thought it was really neat at the time , but even back then they were obsolete unknown to me. During the gulf war I know we were told later while we were busy winning the ground campaign the Wisconsin was used to bombard Iraqi positions with those 16 inch rifles and Tomahawks .


I kinda wish we had kept at least one of those big boats in service if for nothing else other than the prestige of having them , still they are as obsolete as anything can be and are incredibly expensive to operate / maintain.

 

[JMD]

I wonder how many light bulbs filaments failed after this salvo? When they fired the 6” gun on my guided missile cruiser the bulbs would fail in the fire room.

I had never heard of this problem but I can certainly imagine why. I was stationed on an MSO and the biggest guns we had were two 50 cal machine guns mounted out side the pilot house on the 01 level...so we never shook the lights out.

 

[KOPBET]

 

[Firpo]

I kinda wish we had kept at least one of those big boats in service if for nothing else other than the prestige of having them , still they are as obsolete as anything can be and are incredibly expensive to operate / maintain.

I’m with ya on this although me thinks if we can blow……I mean send Ukraine $75,000,000,000.00 we should be able to keep a battleship operational. Love to see one rolling into port and why? Because we can!

 

[redleg10]

During my military adventure that would be "Shot Over".

 

[WoodsCraft]

@Firpo

I would be ok with the money those aholes are spending in Ukraine being devoted to keeping Might Mo operational and cruising on patrol

 

[SoonerP226]

but even back then they were obsolete

They were actually well-suited for the job of lobbing Tomahawks because of their huge reserve of buoyancy. It allowed them to carry (and launch) more cruise missiles than anything else the Navy had, with the possible exception of the boomers. Ryan Szimanski, curator of the Battleship New Jersey Museum, covered this in a video on the Battleship's YouTube channel.

The Iowas were basically obsolete for naval warfare, but they were hell on wheels (wait, can you say that about a ship?) for shore bombardment. I think the biggest problems the Iowas had were that they were labor- and cash-intensive to operate, plus they were approaching 60 years old when they were finally stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

We shoulda kept one in service. It's just expensive to be cool. Everyone knows that...