The Trigger From the Last Firing Of Battleship NJ's Guns

[@corollaguy6740]

That picture at 6:57 is something special. You can tell he is in his memories, having a good day.

[@user-kp1ei7mn3x]

I'm retired army armor. "Chiefs coffee cup" kills me. This is one of the best shows on youtube.

[@matthewmiller7293]

For those who want to really get into the weeds on the fire control instrumentation, procedure, and redundancies aboard US battleships, Drachinifel is in the middle of a deep dive on the subject right now in his Friday video series - highly recommended. Mostly filmed aboard NJ this year, so it'll all look familiar.

[@kmh032008]

It was a great tutorial

[@foundersrule3496]

I like that support string holding the display frame.

[@aserta]

4:21 rather than foam, which may fall off, i'd get the round feet that you put under furniture, specifically, i'd get the self sticking ones that come with the padding around (as a packaging method), because you can cut the packaging as well and tape it on the inside of the brackets with the round part as well.

[@barrywilkinson3420]

As an ex-Firecontrol tech, that gyro is called a "stable Element." I was a destroyer sailor and I think we had only two firing keys.

[@henrycarlson7514]

a fine display . Thank You

[@bigsarge2085]

Interesting!

[@nurderbvbabernurderbvb]

"What safety procedures have to be put in place to prevent this from happening again?" "Retire them all" "Yes Sir!"

[@AsbestosMuffins]

it really was a case of lack of trained operators and officers with a knowledge base about the guns capabilities and limitations. the charge rammer today would be made incapable of smashing a powder bag in the gun breach setting it off like they did. retiring the old technology was probably the safest thing to do in the end.

[@nurderbvbabernurderbvb]

@AsbestosMuffins i guess... but was it the only time something like that happend on any kind of warship? Difficult to believe that this only happend once, considering how long battleships or other ships with heavy artillery are around.

[@johnsykesiii1629]

Is that the handle that was missing in Drach's video with Dr. Soles?

[@1337flite]

@Battleship New Jersey - going back to the video on small arms on the ship, did the New Jersey have a SEAL detachment on board? And if so would their weapons have been draw from the ship's issue or would they have bought their own smiliar to the Marines?

[@KnightRanger38]

Could at least some of the triggers given to COs when they left the ship been some that would have needed to be replaced sometime soon?

[@sparkplug1018]

Does the museum know which gun position this particular key came from? And if I were to make a donation for a curators tour, could I see where this particular one came from?

[@1648Christopher]

Is New Jersey missing any triggers?

[@joebeach7759]

So how do they decide which guns fire? I've seen several different videos where 1 gun per turret are fired at the same time, all guns in 1 turret and all 9. How do they do that with 1 trigger?

[@erikterock9071]

I'd actually like to know that myself, I've always been curious

[@navelriver]

In your intro when the very bored guy says "fire...?" they must use that trigger!

[@armf1sh]

Wisconsin envies you and you envy us, ironic.

[@skovner]

I could not resist - Ave, Admiral. Moriturium te salvutant. (So who gets this? And did you have to take 5 years of Latin from the Monty Python centurian (who represents all Latin teachers)?

[@garywayne6083]

Hoarding triggers 😁

[@ReclinedPhysicist]

How many floating-point operations per second could that ship's computer do? Lol

[@j_taylor]

If these were analogue computers, they might not have needed floating points. Although, being on a ship, one could also say that "everything is afloat." 😁

[@ReclinedPhysicist]

@j_taylor 😂

[@KennyCnotG]

​@j_taylor they are mechanical/analogue computers! Amazing machines really.

[@skydiverclassc2031]

I bet that if the ship was being built today, that "chief's coffee cup" used for leveling would cost somewhere around $275.50. 😆

[@KnightRanger38]

Not including the coffee.

[@weylinpiegorsch9253]

Ha. It's the coffee cup used by a Chief. Would've used the most commodity of reusable cups. $1.50, tops. The key is in the "seasoning," which takes time. Not the purchase price.

[@janusx66]

Seen the current situation in the world, would 2025 be the year 2 Iowa's are reactivated again beffore it is too late ?

[@BattleshipNewJersey]

No

[@merlinwizard1000]

1st, 9 January 2025

[@DevilDog0311]

This is just Ryan the slimy civilian who never served because he’s a coward to go on and on saying this is this and that is that