How Big Is the Crater Made By a 16in Gun?

[Chantry]

Danger close for the HE 16" round was 1000 meters

 

 

 

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[Pat Riot, SASS #13748]

Love Naval Guns. 
 

[Redleg Reilly, SASS #46372]

39 minutes ago, Chantry said:

Danger close for the HE 16" round was 1000 meters

 

 

 

Link: 

 

 

 

Due to being high velocity and low angle guns, they had their biggest probable error in range, with little deviation on azimuth. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

26 minutes ago, Redleg Reilly, SASS #46372 said:

Due to being high velocity and low angle guns, they had their biggest probable error in range, with little deviation on azimuth. 

 

 

 

 

 

[Pat Riot, SASS #13748]

Some interesting info:

 

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=32618

 

Amazing! 
 

I had a gunnery instructor in the Navy tell us that the 16 guns were like firing either a Volkswagen or a Buick at your enemy when he’s 20 plus miles away. 

[Subdeacon Joe]

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/05/gears-of-war-when-mechanical-analog-computers-ruled-the-waves/

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

Wouldn't the size of the crater depend on what the projectile hit?

 

I'd think the impact and resulting explosion with identical projectiles would make different sizes of craters in, for instance, sand, concrete, prairie grasses, lava beds, swamps, forests, jungles, and a glacier.

 

Of course, I try to keep my shooting to sizes of weapons I can carry by myself.....and .50 caliber Browning M-1 HB machine guns and their kin (If I ever get the chance again   ).

[Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103]

Naval gunners have the reputation of being able to put that Buick sized shell in your hip pocket from here to yonder, and they don't much care how far away "yonder" is!

[Sixgun Sheridan]

4 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Wouldn't the size of the crater depend on what the projectile hit?

 

I'd think the impact and resulting explosion with identical projectiles would make different sizes of craters in, for instance, sand, concrete, prairie grasses, lava beds, swamps, forests, jungles, and a glacier.

 

Of course, I try to keep my shooting to sizes of weapons I can carry by myself.....and .50 caliber Browning M-1 HB machine guns and their kin (If I ever get the chance again   ).

 

I'm often amused when YouTubers try to see what bullets do to various targets. They always assume a .50BMG will cause the most damage. Often they're surprised when 12 gauge buckshot actually makes a much bigger mess, not realizing that a .50 is designed to punch through hard surfaces and will often just poke a big hole in soft media.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

5 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said:

Wouldn't the size of the crater depend on what the projectile hit?

 

I'd think the impact and resulting explosion with identical projectiles would make different sizes of craters in, for instance, sand, concrete, prairie grasses, lava beds, swamps, forests, jungles, and a glacier.

 

Of course, I try to keep my shooting to sizes of weapons I can carry by myself.....and .50 caliber Browning M-1 HB machine guns and their kin (If I ever get the chance again   ).

Yeah, a 16” gun would send your shoulder to the next county.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

And can you even imagine what a holster would look like and what a whole herd of cattle to make one would cost.....I just figure out what the loading dies would weigh and whereyou could put them.