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Maggie’s Funny & awesome pics, vids and memes thread (work safe, no nudity)

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We would have that made in China now.......
 
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Random pic, although I'd guess it's a gun from one battleship or another, either at some foundry/shop probably in Pennsylvania or Washington Navy yard, or one of the Naval yards where they built em, Brooklyn? Boston, Philly, Norfolk (?) - can't recall where else we built battleships.

Pretty fair sized barrel, isn't it?

Maybe I'll check tineye.com to see where else that picture appeared. I found it without context or comments, so just guessing.



Let's see... Tineye kicked this out:


Higher res shows build date on Flatcar of 1939, so that's probably an Iowa class gun...

Watertown Arsenal and Boston Navy Yard were amazing places that fulfilled the Americán Dream for workers and kept us strong........gone now . boutique villages with facades of once having strength that now house the weak.
 
Looks like some vertical stringing. Need to tighten up those SDs..

Prometheus would fix it.

And is this really a test? I mean isn't the pentagon the worlds biggest building by square foot?

I smell .308 at 4 miles with 168 FGMM and four barn broadsides stacked.......

Wish they would take the Missouri out of mothballs and try the Capitol.
 
Looks like some vertical stringing. Need to tighten up those SDs..

Load workup is challenging as the blast keeps destroying chronographs.

"The D839 propellant (smokeless powder) grain used for full charges issued for this gun was 2 in (51 mm) long, 1 in (25 mm) in diameter and had seven perforations, each 0.060 in (1.5 mm) in diameter with a web thickness range of 0.193 to 0.197 in (4.9 to 5.0 mm) between the perforations and the grain diameter. A maximum charge consisted of six silk bags–hence the term bag gun–each filled with 110 lb (50 kg) of propellant.[1]"

660 lbs. = 4,620,000 grains of powder.

I converted the little lady's bathroom scale to read out in grains with a 10 digit display, but it's tough tryin to find the node. Neighbors keep complaining that they can't sleep and it's shattering windows and cracking foundations. Thinking about getting a Form 1 for a couple of corn silos to tone it down a bit...



 
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Actually, I can see these being used in future warfare… imagine a treaty where wars are fought virtually, but casualties are required to be real. I can see something like this being a real thing in a dystopian future society where cannon fodder is still cannon fodder.

Sirhr
 
Actually, I can see these being used in future warfare… imagine a treaty where wars are fought virtually, but casualties are required to be real. I can see something like this being a real thing in a dystopian future society where cannon fodder is still cannon fodder.

Sirhr
He is a defense contractor too...
 
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