Engineering vs Manufacturing; battleships ww2

[AJMD429]

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Big Screwup…!

https://youtu.be/8rrXs9vPfE8?si=k5ZYAd_EusV_QKvi

It would’ve been interesting to be at that meeting when they realize they were off a few feet…

[gamekeeper]

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[jeepnik]

Literally down the street sits the USS Iowa. It is a marvel of marine engineering. Especially when you consider how fast it went from concept to finished vessel.

But it was also far from perfect. It was modified several times to correct initial design flaws and to update it to newer technology as it came on line.

The class was designed primarily for ship to ship engagements. Yet by the time it was designed the airplane had proven itself as the future of anti-ship weaponry.

It’s secondary use was shore bombardment. It was primarily used in this capacity.

A tertiary use was, and possibly its most important role was as an antiaircraft platform to protect the new darling of naval warfare, the aircraft carrier.

[TraderVic]

Never got to see the USS Iowa over in the Tonkin Gulf (Vietnam) while it was over there. It was retired from service before I got over there myself.
While in Subic Bay, Phillipines, I was driving a guy from my ship up to the hospital and passed by a yard area where a bunch of large "telephone poles" were stored on blocks. The old chief gunners mate riding along commented that those were extra gun barrels for the Iowa.

[Ray]

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[TraderVic]

Ray,
I had to look up a Knox Class "can" and realized you were on a DE (destroyer escort), or that's how they were classified while I was in.
Regards, Vic

[Ray]

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[Griff]

I spent just under 2 years on a converted Forrest-Sherman class Destroyer, removing 2 5" gun mounts and installing the Tartar missile system in their place, making it a Guided Missile Destroyer, or DDG. I arrived Jan 2, 1972 and left on Dec 5, 1973, making 2 WestPacs aboard. The Newport News was a Heavy Cruiser and during 1972 I saw her a couple of times. She could stand off the coast several miles farther than we and bombard inland targets farther than we could only 1-2 miles off the coast.

She survived the planned sinking by Air Force B-52s as a target ship, finally settling to her final home off HI, being boarded by Navy EOD experts and having her keel broken.

[Ray]

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[AJMD429]

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Thanks for sharing that, Ray.

Wow what a photo…



…talk about muzzle blast…!!!