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November 22, 2015, 02:07 AM | #26 | |
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Thanks for the links. Should be some interesting reading.
I didn't get a chance to dig for video last night. I had to scrounge for last minute items for today's pheasant annihilation. And, today, of course, was the pheasant annihilation. So it won't happen tonight, either. I should have a little bit of free time tomorrow to go digging. Quote:
The clip that I saw was shot from below the level of the turrets - the deck, I assume - from the bow, looking aft, with the turrets close to 90 degrees off the starboard side (unless the image got flipped, but I think I would have noticed backwards numbers/letters). Color film (and very high quality). Not another soul visible anywhere on the deck or bridge superstructure. It's the forward-most turret that has the 'oddity'.
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The "wear reducing jacket" explains the large debris you sometimes see coming out of the guns.
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In Washington D.C. at the Naval Gun Factory Museum and navy yard there is a section of gun turret from a Japanese warship that was hit with a 16" AP round. The wall of the turret is about 11" thick armor. The entrance hole is about one foot and the exit hole about 3-4 inches. The shell is said to have killed the entire crew of the Japanese turret from the blast entering via the small hole. They also have a rail car with a 16" barrel in display.
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December 16, 2015, 10:58 AM | #29 |
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Firstly a caveat:
"I know almost nothing about naval rifles" But I saw a documentary that may prove interesting & even explain the OP's "squib". It was a WW2 (I think) training film made by Warner-Pathe about operating a 16" turret. In it one of the things they mention that, as an uninformed landlubber I was unaware of. There's an "air injector" that is in some way used to push a shot of air into the fired bores. In one scene where they're preparing to fire you see the muzzle covers being "popped off" the muzzles, preparing the turret to fire, so it seems the air is pretty powerful. Supposedly its real function is to force fired gas from the tube to prevent it getting back into the turret where it can be harmful to the gun crew. In another scene its shown being tested, they fire & wait, then (however its done) I think somehow connected to the breech opening lever? they trip the "air injector" & there's a puff of smoke which might well be thought of as a squib round firing. Maybe that what were thinking of?
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December 20, 2015, 08:50 PM | #30 |
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Retired Fire Controlman Master Chief here (gun system guidance)... All naval guns have clearing charges, to be used in the event of a round that doesn't clear the barrel. Very rarely ever needed, as gun failures are more likely to be the result of no firing voltage, etc.
The few truly fouled barrels I've seen have been the result of problems during the ramming cycle and have required the barrel to be removed and cleared in the lab, luckily all were with dummy rounds. |
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Thanks for the replies.
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The chunk of armor at the Navy Yard Museum in Washington is a 26-inch-thick piece of turret face armor from the IJN Shinano, the third in the Yamato class of super battleships.
It was found in, IIRC, the Kure Naval Yard where it had been abandoned after the Japanese converted the unfinished hull to an aircraft carrier. The 16" armor piercing shell from a 50-caliber gun, the kind used on the New Jersey class ships and intended for the Montana class, made a hash of the armor. The rail gun at the Navy Yard isn't 16", it's a 14"/50 Mk 4, the kind used on the Pennsylvania and Arizona. The new 16" guns weren't yet available in sufficient quantities for the new classes of battleships that were building, so the military went with the 14", which was quite effective.
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Regarding the air injector, modern tanks also have air injectors for the same purpose -- to keep fumes out of the crew spaces.
Fumes from a big gun, let alone three, could quickly prove to be toxic to crews if it weren't ejected.
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I was under the impression (probably wrong) that the ship type were some kind of air pressure from an external tank of some kind, injected as the breech lever was opened, not the "big-bulge-in-the-barrel widget" of tank guns?
For the evacuation to be delayable as the old training film suggests there is quite a long delay bey comparison as the guns are lowered to loading stations? Without that the "puff" would be, like a tank firing about instant wouldn't it?
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Wogpotter. The "clearing" air comes from the ship's High Pressure, 3,000 psi, compressors. Five inch bores, and larger, used the HP air to clear any unburned powder or other residue from the barrel before ramming the next charge. Off Beirut ('84), I had a "dufus" seaman sleep out under the forward 5-inch mount one night. We got a call for fire and he slept right through a 5 round salvo! It is quite a sight to see nine 16 inch muzzles swing inland. You just KNOW something is going to disappear.
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Thanks. I assumed it was something other than the AFV system from the images in the video. Those compressors will definitely blow off the tompions eh?
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What a fascinating, informative thread.
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