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From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: New Jersey big guns
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Date: 21 Nov 89 04:20:52 GMT
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From: malloy@nprdc.navy.mil (Sean Malloy)

In article <11541@cbnews.ATT.COM> terryr@ogccse.ogc.edu (Terry Rooker) writes:
>In article <11522@cbnews.ATT.COM> climber@sol.UVic.CA writes:
>>             Also, someone mentioned they may fix rocket boosters to the
>>shells to provide over-the-horizon strikes.

>much like the converted Japanese BB's late in WWII.  I never heard
>that the laser guidance or rocket assist even made it to the 
>research stage, they were simply ideas.  Both technologies are
>rather mature so it shouldn't prove to difficult to actually 
>develop them.

The copy of _Principles of Naval Ordinance and Gunnery_ (NAVEDTRA
10783-C) that I have describes the 5"/38 rocket-assisted projectile,
but doesn't mention the 16"/50 round. However, I have come across
references which I don't have access to right now describing a RAP for
the 16"/50 which has a range of ca. 70 miles, at a cost of doubling
the CEP and about halving the explosive power.


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