16 Inch Shell and Powder

16 Inch Shell and Powder


Los Angeles, California (CA), US
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.

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