Article

2016-10-05 Government

Army looking to scrap 15,000 16-inch shells

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-05 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Reactivate the Missouri, send it somewhere useful (Syria?) and let it 'scrap' the shells.

Posted by Glenmore 2016-10-05 01:53|| 2016-10-05 01:53|| Front Page Top

#2 I'll take 2.

Posted by Shipman 2016-10-05 06:16|| 2016-10-05 06:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Excellent as doorstops and fence posts.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2016-10-05 09:04|| 2016-10-05 09:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-05 10:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-05 11:53|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-05 17:06|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-05 17:21|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-05 17:28|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-05 18:41|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-10-05 20:21|| Front Page Top

23:42 CrazyFool
23:41 CrazyFool
20:24 Jeasing Creque5352
20:21 Thing From Snowy Mountain
19:48 DarthVader
19:41 Jaitle Spenter4460
19:40 Barbara
18:53 JohnQC
18:49 JohnQC
18:41 SteveS
18:21 DarthVader
18:18 M. Murcek
17:48 rjschwarz
17:47 rjschwarz
17:44 rjschwarz
17:30 SteveS
17:28 g(r)omgoru
17:21 swksvolFF
17:18 DarthVader
17:06 Shipman
17:05 Vinegar de Medici8791
16:55 g(r)omgoru
16:35 Shipman
16:32 Shipman