NRA Opens new firearm Museum

[Chuck]

.......just a pity it's in Missouri.

Skip past the annoying advert first:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/nra-muse ... 26192.html#

[meles meles]

Hmmm, if only it were in THE Missouri...

[Chuck]

Now THAT would be something...

[meles meles]

Yes, we'd call it a firearms museum in a battleship...

[Polchraine]

Hmmm, if only it were in THE Missouri...

How many actual barrels were firing in that? I wonder if they ever tried firing all nine guns simultaneously on the Missouri?


I was on a couple of Royal Navy County Class destroyers - some had two twin 4.5" and others just a single twin turret. The recoil from the 4.5" guns was actually enough to spin the ship and if all four were fire at once the roll was amazing!

[meles meles]

That was a full 9 barrel broadside - reportedly capable of moving the ship almost 27 feet sideways

[Rearlugs]

Ships don't move (sideways, in the water) by any measurably amount when firing a broadside - e.g. in Missouri the kinetic energy of nine tons of shells going out at 820 m/s is absorbed by the recoil slides, the c.50k ton mass of the ship, the resistance of the water, etc.

Heres a good article:

http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-022.htm

[Polchraine]

Ships don't move (sideways, in the water) by any measurably amount when firing a broadside - e.g. in Missouri the kinetic energy of nine tons of shells going out at 820 m/s is absorbed by the recoil slides, the c.50k ton mass of the ship, the resistance of the water, etc.

Heres a good article:

http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-022.htm

Correct ... however the County Class had two forward turrets and if they were firing a full bombardment the ship would rotate ... the bow moving one way and the stern the opposite.