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From: emery@aries.mitre.org (David Emery)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: 16" Battleship gun info wanted
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Date: 3 Apr 91 17:52:05 GMT
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From: emery@aries.mitre.org (David Emery)

To resolve a debate some friends of mine are having:

	Does anyone know the muzzle velocity, time of flight, or max
ordinate for a 16" gun firing at max range?  

	Apparently USN&WR said in an article that a 16" gun firing at
a range of 25 miles, the projectile would travel 50,000 feet into the
air.  Some people asserted this was correct, others said it sounded
much too high (assuming low angle fire).  

	With either time-of-flight or muzzle velocity, we can
approximate the max ordinate (assuming a vacuum, which gives an upper
bound on the problem).  

thanks in advance

dave emery
emery@aries.mitre.org