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NRA Opens new firearm Museum
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:24 am
by Chuck
.......just a pity it's in Missouri.
Skip past the annoying advert first:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/nra-muse ... 26192.html#
Re: NRA Opens new firearm Museum
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 10:33 am
by meles meles
Hmmm, if only it were in THE Missouri...
Re: NRA Opens new firearm Museum
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 1:13 pm
by Chuck
Now THAT would be something...
Re: NRA Opens new firearm Museum
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 2:06 pm
by meles meles
Yes, we'd call it a firearms museum in a battleship...
Re: NRA Opens new firearm Museum
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 4:14 pm
by Polchraine
meles meles wrote: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!
Re: NRA Opens new firearm Museum
Posted: Sun Aug 04, 2013 4:30 pm
by meles meles
That was a full 9 barrel broadside - reportedly capable of moving the ship almost 27 feet sideways
Re: NRA Opens new firearm Museum
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 5:42 am
by 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
Re: NRA Opens new firearm Museum
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2013 12:01 pm
by Polchraine
Rearlugs wrote: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.