16 Inch Shell and Powder

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By kjfitz @ 2018-04-08 16:34:34
The 16 inch guns on the Iowa Class battleships used bags of 660 pounds of gun powder to propel the 2700 pound shells a distance of 38 kms where it would produce a craters 50 feet wide and 20 feet deep.
Links: www.latimes.com, en.wikipedia.org
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