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From: jimcat@rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: battleships
Message-ID: <1991Feb19.031822.16780@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 19 Feb 91 03:18:22 GMT
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From: jimcat@rpi.edu (Jim Kasprzak)
In article <1991Feb18.052418.9551@cbnews.att.com> steve@nuchat.sccsi.com (Steve Nuchia) writes:
>
>the U.S. no longer has any plant that makes 16" barrel liners.
 
 In fact, I think we still do. The Watervliet Aresnal (just across
the river from here) still has the original equipment used to make
the liners, although I don't think they can make new barrels.
There are actually several spare barrels which are periodically 
rotated when one needs to be relined, so a BB doesn't have to sit
idle or go out with a gun missing. 
 
 Is Rich Welty still reading this group? He posted some useful 
information on the subject when people were asking 16" gun questions
after the turret explosion on the Iowa.
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