Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: JEWELLLW@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU (Larry W. Jewell) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: BB's Cruise Missle load Message-ID: <1991Jan28.035448.7775@cbnews.att.com> Date: 28 Jan 91 03:54:48 GMT Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 Approved: military@att.att.com From: "Larry W. Jewell" I was homeported in Long Beach, Ca. '83-'86 while both the New Jersey and the Missouri underwhen reactivation and each of them was fitted with eight four-unit Tomahawk Launchers, four between the stacks and four aft of the after stack, all on the 01 level, the deck just above the main deck. With the setup that was visible from the pier (me no spy!) it looked like it would be very easy to add a few more in unused deck space. They also received four Harpoon units (each with four tubes). The buzz in the ship yard was that the Jersy would be back for a further modification in which the after turret would be removed and the fantail would be converted to a Vertical Launch System setup for 360 missiles. Sounds crazy if you've never seen a BB, but they would have fit easily. I can't think of ANYTHING that would have had that much punch and move under it's own power. (No George Foreman jokes, please.) ************************************************************************ *The man who can smile when everything is going wrong has found * *someone to blame it one. * ***************************Nixon's Theorem ***************************** Larry W. Jewell JEWELLLW@VM.CC.PURDUE.EDU