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| Army looking to scrap 15,000 16-inch shells |
| 2016-10-05 |
| [Guns.com] The Army for the past couple months has been looking for vendors interested in getting rid of possibly the largest cache of battleship food still in existence. While it would seem like the Navy would take point on this one, the U.S. Army Contracting Command in Rock Island, Ill., in as part of the Joint Munitions Command is announced in August they were looking for potential sources who possess the expertise in demilling and disposing of 15,595 surplus 16″/50 caliber shells currently being stored at the Crane Army Ammunition Activity in Indiana. The shells are all for the Iowa-class battleships, commissioned in World War II and brought back by popular request for Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon and the Persian Gulf wars. Decommissioned at the end of the Cold War, by 2012 all four ships of the class (Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri and Wisconsin) were transferred to various museums around the country. Some shells belonged to even older North Carolina and South Dakota-class ships. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 We could been the guys to buy some An-225s... Load the shells into Ford F150 pickup trucks... Drive em in... Dump them over the target... |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-10-05 20:21 |
| #9 #5 Could they be chained together in six-packs, and pushed off the ramp of a C-130 somewhere's ? Careful there, pal. That's dangerously close to metal cylinders filled with explosives and dropped from aircraft. As we know from all the whinging about Syria, that's like war crimes and barrel bombs and stuff. Personally, as long as we blow *something* up with them, I'm good. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2016-10-05 18:41 |
| #8 Seems such a horrible waste. The things you could do to Kharg Island, or Ras Tanura, with 15,000 16-inch shells. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-05 17:28 |
| #7 I like ship's better, but this is good to me: There's a far bell ringing At the setting of the sun, And a phantom voice is singing Of the great days done. There's a far bell ringing, And a phantom voice is singing Of renown for ever clinging To the great days done. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2016-10-05 17:21 |
| #6 Perhaps, where the low gate opens to some cottage-garden, the tired traveller may ask, idly, why the moss grows so green on its rugged wood; and even the sailor's child may not answer, nor know, that the night-dew lies deep in the war-rents of the wood of the old Téméraire. Always maker me get a bit misty. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-10-05 17:06 |
| #5 Could they be chained together in six-packs, and pushed off the ramp of a C-130 somewhere's ? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-10-05 11:53 |
| #4 Yeah, I know they're obsolete, but a salvo of 16" naval rifles conveys a certain seriousness of purpose. |
| Posted by: Matt 2016-10-05 10:32 |
| #3 Excellent as doorstops and fence posts. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-10-05 09:04 |
| #2 I'll take 2. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-10-05 06:16 |
| #1 Reactivate the Missouri, send it somewhere useful (Syria?) and let it 'scrap' the shells. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-10-05 01:53 |