The 8"/55 Rapid Fire Gun & Turret

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BruceDuncan

Ex chaos ordo

Posts: 12,916

Thursday, October 19th 2017, 1:10am

The 8"/55 Rapid Fire Gun & Turret

We have talked about such things often; but I came across this 1955 USN training film that explains how they are constructed and function. Interesting.

Training Film

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HoOmAn

Keeper of the Sacred Block Coefficient

Posts: 7,417

Friday, October 20th 2017, 10:19am

Nice one...

Great footage.... Thanks for sharing.

What made me smile is that for all this high tech there is still a man required sitting on his butt to hold a a line while projectile handling. THAT is trueling amazing. :)

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thesmilingassassin

The Chosen One

Posts: 13,513

Friday, October 20th 2017, 12:31pm

When machines no longer need human imput to fire a gun I fear our end is near, so I for one am very happy to see that!

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Hood

Ugly Aircraft, Inc

Posts: 8,155

Friday, October 20th 2017, 1:19pm

That's an interesting video. Nice find.

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