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Remaining ammo |
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Posts: 13 (30-Mar-2008 23:40:58) |
How much ammunition does the navy retain for these ships and for how long? Is it decades old or how recently was the last manufactured?
Also in general, how long does the navy keep ammunition for retired ships? Example - the 8" stuff for the Des Moines? |
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Posts: 2288 ( 9-Apr-2008 19:39:42) |
There are several thousand unpacked (no bursting charges) empty steel shells still around. I don't know what the "shelf life" of the powder bags
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Posts: 52 (11-Apr-2008 22:52:37) |
If you ask GUNNER I think you'll find that the 16" shells, along with 8" shells are still kept in inventory. No idea how many.
Sir Humphrey: Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now when it's worked so well?
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Gunnersmate04 |
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Posts: 105 (15-Apr-2008 15:24:04) |
their are numerous 8 inch shells in inventory in Yorktown. My friend is a Master Chief there and he confirmed this with me last year. Korean War vintage and
older.
There are 16 inch PROJO''s at Hawthorne in Neveda. These shells are rather stable, just keep them cool and try and they will last for ,well, 50 years or better obviously. They also have barrels and liners for the MK-7 guns at last check. Now silk powder bags, I can't confirm what the inventory is on those but I would hazard a guess those arent hard to manufacture if needed. Hope that helps. GUNNER |
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Posts: 17 (16-Apr-2008 18:36:58) |
I read somewhere that the remaining 16" Barrels in storage have been disposed of - scrapping and museum donations. Supposedly there were 34 barrels in
storage but I guess they're gone now.
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Gunnersmate04 |
On the record, thats correct... | ||
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Posts: 110 (16-Apr-2008 21:26:45) |
....off the record, there are barrels and liners that were "over-looked' when the word came down to destroy them. Off the record again, there are 23
left in Hawthorne. Hardly enough to matter, but, some are there.
"I have no recollection Senator"...... GUNNER |
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Posts: 18 (17-Apr-2008 18:17:37) |
Gotcha...Ixnay on the barrelay - LOL!!!
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Posts: 58 (18-Apr-2008 22:20:57) |
One of these days I'm going to learn Pig Latin...
Sir Humphrey: Minister, Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now when it's worked so well?
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Posts: 1145 ( 9-Jul-1906 22:08:56) |
it is arrelbay not barrelyay
nuff said bob
For those that fought for it,Freedom has a taste and meaning ,The protected will never know.
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Posts: 2294 (22-Apr-2008 17:18:52) |
Of the 23 16" barrels left, 18 are for the 16"/50 mk. 8 and 5 for the 16"/45 mk. 7.
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Posts: 6350 (31-May-2008 21:50:41) |
(((They also have barrels and liners for the MK-7 guns at last check.)))
If the barrels are finished, the liner installed and the lands and grooves cut, the barrels could probably be straightened and used as they will have some bending. The liners are worthless because they have egg shaped so much that they could not be installed and there is no longer a gun pit that deep but one could be made. (((Now silk powder bags, I can't confirm what the inventory is on those but I would hazard a guess those arent hard to manufacture if needed.))) Powder no matter how old, wet dry, been wet then dried or whatever can be reworked or remanufactured and its considered as good as new. Can be loose powder, bag powder or case powder, makes no difference. In my day there was a directive that any powder 7 years old was to be sent back for remanufacture. Any where I was at we did not have any powder that was very old I can assure you so we never sent any back:-) |
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