Iowa Class Battleship 16 inch gun firing montage + 5 inch guns, CIWS

[@walterswarhistoryarchive]

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[@omegabw9446]

"There was once an island there..." "Why what happened to it?" "Captain of a battleship didnt want to see it anymore" "Oh! Oh......."

[@walterswarhistoryarchive]

Some islands have it coming.

[@gfds4tggdf]

Where did you find this footage? Trying to find it in best quality! Great stuff

[@thomaswburkhart]

the fact the ship barely moves after a shot just shows how insane the engineering is behind those cannons

[@Phoenix8492]

To quote the Fat Electrician: "Welcome to Toyotathon, motherf*****!"

[@crabmannyjoe2]

I cant imagine the terror one must have knowing those guns are trained on you.

[@External_Bastion]

Not for very long

[@scooterdescooter4018]

"Lmao" said the Iowa class battleship, "Lol."

[@quantumalchemy]

That is so bad ass

[@hectorbarajas9316]

If they would fully refurbish and re- update just two of these big mamas with really cool tv commercials it would be a great recruitment tool ! Right now the US Navy is on a manpower slump.

[@nightowlarchive]

When I was younger I wanted to enlist purely because I wanted to serve on a battleship, as I got older and realized that era is gone I lost interest.

[@Ronald-k6s]

I was in the Navy 1977-1990 and I was stationed on the USS FLATLEY FFG21 doing operations in the Caribbean with the IOWA and I got to see the USS IOWA Firing Her 16 inch guns individually and all at once. What a Sight!

[@walterswarhistoryarchive]

Which Iowa class battleship is your favorite and why? (we all know it's USS Missouri)

[@Lightning-95292]

uss missouri, speed, precision in the guns and agile!

[@LolXD2321]

Uss Iowa

[@Susanoo449]

New Jersey, she sunk a fucking island

[@davidmacy411]

Missouri and Wisconsin is a tossup for me. I LOVE the story of the artillery position that dared to fire at and hit the Wisconsin. She retaliated with not 1 but 2 full volleys which basically vaporized their position for causing the only enemy damage to the ship.

[@Ronald-k6s]

I would say the IOWA because I was stationed on the USS FLATLEY FFG21 doing operations with her in the Caribbean and I got to see her fire her 16 inch guns individually and all at once. I was also stationed on 2 Destroyers homeported in Norfolk Virginia and we sometimes we would moor outside of the IOWA and have to walk across her to get to the shore. Wish that I could go back in TIME!

[@wrenchofpower]

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