And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
A question for someone with more knowledge than I on firearms and gunpowder. Gunpowder for firearms moved from gunpowder which produced a great deal of smoke, to smokeless powder. Yet as this photo shows, naval guns when fired, even modern gun platforms, generated a great deal of smoke. so the questions is what accounts for the difference? Did the U.S. Navy simply not get the memo?
If you've been to the indoor gun range and forgot to turn on the fans you'll quickly 'see' that modern power is only smokeless in comparison to traditional gunpowder. I've shot both and outdoors in a brisk breeze after firing six cylinders of 'Black Powder' I'd have to wait for a few seconds what my score was. Or if a herd of zebras had wandered onto the range unnoticed.
Like the previous answer, it’s a matter of powder volume being ignited….660 lbs of cordite per barrel on the 16”s on the Iowa /Missouri class battleships…
Back in the 80's I watched from the Enterprise flight deck as (I think it was) the New Jersey spent several minutes burning up a bunch of expired ammo during a joint exercise with the Japanese SDF. I think we were reinforcing a lesson.
Ryan Szimanski- curator of the Battleship New Jersey says they didn't fire all 9 guns at the same time because the muzzle blast and the turbulence of the rounds would interfere with the trajectory, so they were fired middle, right and left at about a .3 second delay. https://youtu.be/rG1_kwwidg4
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ReplyDeleteThey could sit 20 miles offshore and lob shells the weight of a VW Beetle in at their target.
ReplyDeleteField artillery (US Army) in the1980s considered their standard to be into a garbge can at 10 clicks.
ReplyDeleteArty the King of Battle;, delivering the mail 24/7/365 through rain, sleet or snow and brghtening many a gloomy day and night.
ReplyDeleteA question for someone with more knowledge than I on firearms and gunpowder. Gunpowder for firearms moved from gunpowder which produced a great deal of smoke, to smokeless powder. Yet as this photo shows, naval guns when fired, even modern gun platforms, generated a great deal of smoke. so the questions is what accounts for the difference? Did the U.S. Navy simply not get the memo?
ReplyDeleteIf you've been to the indoor gun range and forgot to turn on the fans you'll quickly 'see' that modern power is only smokeless in comparison to traditional gunpowder.
DeleteI've shot both and outdoors in a brisk breeze after firing six cylinders of 'Black Powder' I'd have to wait for a few seconds what my score was. Or if a herd of zebras had wandered onto the range unnoticed.
Like the previous answer, it’s a matter of powder volume being ignited….660 lbs of cordite per barrel on the 16”s on the Iowa /Missouri class battleships…
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https://www.quora.com/Why-did-battleship-main-guns-use-black-powder-as-opposed-to-nitrocellulose-based-propellants
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ReplyDeleteI would love to have gone to sea on a BB and experience a full broadside.
ReplyDeleteBack in the 80's I watched from the Enterprise flight deck as (I think it was) the New Jersey spent several minutes burning up a bunch of expired ammo during a joint exercise with the Japanese SDF. I think we were reinforcing a lesson.
ReplyDeleteRyan Szimanski- curator of the Battleship New Jersey says they didn't fire all 9 guns at the same time because the muzzle blast and the turbulence of the rounds would interfere with the trajectory, so they were fired middle, right and left at about a .3 second delay.
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