Go fer ya gun partner
 

I found this amazing picture on the web today, the full power of the naval broadside displayed in all it's power and Glory.

But what is the ship and who's she firing at ?


http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/8052/broadside.jpg

It's a Iowa class battleship. Likely just a practice barrage.

http://img815.imageshack.us/img815/8052/broadside.jpg

Why does the water depression appear to be bigger at the aft guns (3) and the water depression appear smaller at the forward guns (6)?

In this picture were the aft guns fired first?

Aft guns appear to have fired first.

I don't think the fore most gun has even fired yet

Judging by the puffs of smoke amidships, some of the five inch secondary batteries are likely firing too.

Looks maybe like an aerial taken from a Swordfish when they firing at the Bismarck back W W Vietnam. :88)

Too bad we couldn't have lent one of the four to the Royal Navy during the Falklands conflict in '82. Would have helped make short work of the Argentinian Army's entrenched hill positions around the port of Stanley.

I believe that's the New Jersey in exercises off Puerto Rico.

footnote: When all guns are fired in a broadside that ship moves laterialy sideways quite a distance in the water. WOW!!! :o

That's actually a myth. We had quite a discussion on the physics of that before. When the guns are fired, the ship moves sideways at most a fraction of a millimeter :88)

No...no...not this discussion again...please...god...no!!

Can I blame Obama for it? :88)

Blame Ronald Reagan . He's the one who brought these behemoths out of mothballs. :03:

I remember that one, must dig it out ;)

Could this be the discussion ? :DL

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom//arc.../t-113800.html :haha: