The Biggest Of Black Powder Guns Are BBack.....Iowa and Wisconsin.....Reportedly.

[Coehorn]

By the looks of it, one I shouldn't have trusted.

 

[Inigoes]

By the looks of it, one I shouldn't have trusted.

Its unlikely in today's environment that a battleship will be reinstated.

Not because of the technology of the guns, but because of the manpower needed to operate the vessel.

 

[Sirex]

I love the Iowa class battleships. I always thought, at least the USS Missouri should have been kept active at least as a ceremonial ship, like the Constellation and Constitution.

 

[delaware_export]

iowa Ain’t going back into service. She was looking pretty bad a few years ago. And the one forward turret that blew out barrel still has a plug barrel. Would not function properly without major work. Which folks probably wouldnt be able to remember how to do these days

 

[Inigoes]

iowa Ain’t going back into service. She was looking pretty bad a few years ago. And the one forward turret that blew out barrel still has a plug barrel. Would not function properly without major work. Which folks probably wouldnt be able to remember how to do these days


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There is a spare 16 inch barrel in the USS New Jersey parking lot.

 

[delaware_export]

As a side note, the DOD is a primary investor in the American black powder industry.

when Goex was about to be discontinued, dod made investments. they needed to ensure domestic BP production for the armament industry.

 

[delaware_export]

the us gov probably couldnt pass the NJ BGC to purchase and transfer that thing out of NJ!

There is a spare 16 inch barrel in the USS New Jersey parking lot.

 

[Inigoes]

the us gov probably couldnt pass the NJ BGC to purchase and transfer that thing out of NJ!

My money is on that they can't find an instructor to sign off on the NJ Firearms purchaser identification card.

 

[TheOriginalMexicanBob]

Within the last few years all but a few replacement barrels for the Iowas have been destroyed…recycled in politically correct terms. The few that survived have been allocated to museums…including one or more installed on the Missouri at the time of the WWII Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.

Those surviving guns were only saved by a write-in campaign by citizens…all were scheduled for destruction during the Obama regime.

 

[John from MD]

There is a spare 16 inch barrel in the USS New Jersey parking lot.

I think there is one near the Torpedo Factory too or somewhere around there.

 

[Doco Overboard]

There's one at Henlopen

The U.S. Navy at Cape Henlopen

The Navy maintained a presence on Cape Henlopen for a century, extending from the Spanish American War until the Cold War. That presence included naval wireless and radio stations, a naval base, a harbor entrance control post (HECP), mine units, inshore undersea warfare units, a SOSUS Naval...

www.navyatcapehenlopen.info

 

[Alan3413]

Maybe they'll deploy off the Somalian coast and pulverize the anti ship launchers

 

[2flhun]

Maybe this is what kicked this off

Iowa-Class Battleship USS New Jersey Is Getting A Massive Overhaul

This March, the USS New Jersey will once again be on the move following nearly three decades of museum duty. However, the mighty Iowa-class battleship will not be returning to service.

nationalinterest.org

 

[TheOriginalMexicanBob]

After the Vietnam War I met a veteran who was all in favor of foreign aid to the North Vietnamese. He said we could recommission all four Iowa class battleships and they could cruise up and down the Vietnamese coast sending 16" care packages all day long.

As a matter of fact...the Houthis are certainly deserving of such foreign aid as well.

 

[John from MD]

After the Vietnam War I met a veteran who was all in favor of foreign aid to the North Vietnamese. He said we could recommission all four Iowa class battleships and they could cruise up and down the Vietnamese coast sending 16" care packages all day long.

As a matter of fact...the Houthis are certainly deserving of such foreign aid as well.

My kind of plan.

 

[Alan3413]

After the Vietnam War I met a veteran who was all in favor of foreign aid to the North Vietnamese. He said we could recommission all four Iowa class battleships and they could cruise up and down the Vietnamese coast sending 16" care packages all day long.

As a matter of fact...the Houthis are certainly deserving of such foreign aid as well.

Where's the like button?

 

[teratos]

But is there bblack powder in there?

Probably not.

I only shoot b-b-black powder…
But I’m bad to the bone.

 

[AlBeight]

I only shoot b-b-black powder…
But I’m bad to the bone.

 

[BurkeM]

Within the last few years all but a few replacement barrels for the Iowas have been destroyed…recycled in politically correct terms.

One barrel is still at Dahlgren.

 

[JoeRinMD]

One barrel is still at Dahlgren.

...and another outside in front of the Navy Museum at the Washington Navy Yard, where they were originally made.

During summers in college, I worked at the Navy Yard as n engineering intern. I was absolutely fascinated by the history of the Naval Gun Factory which built ALL of the big guns for the Navy, as well as other interesting projects, like the lockworks of the Panama Canal!

JoeR