A 46 cm shell (Yamato)

Ulrich Rudofsky · Post by **Ulrich Rudofsky** » Sun Jun 26, 2005 11:06 pm

http://album.nikon-image.com/nk/NImageA ... 0&pos0=157 Click to enlarge.....

This is from the Yamato 1:10 model page........... http://album.nikon-image.com/nk/NAlbumT ... =0&cnt=322

tommy303 · Post by **tommy303** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 3:56 pm

Most impressive, and a model maker's ultimate dream.

tommy303 · Post by **tommy303** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 4:00 pm

I presume the shells shown are light weight replicas? It seems the shelving upon which they sit is too light for the real thing.

Ulrich Rudofsky · Post by **Ulrich Rudofsky** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 6:08 pm

It seem like they are real. But could it be just the outer skin? The real thing would weigh ~3000 lbs!

tommy303 · Post by **tommy303** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:36 am

True, the shell on the left is an APCBC type 91shell, or casting thereof, the one in the middle seems to be the special san-shiki AA incendiary common, and the one on the right looks to be a type 91 with the windscreen and part of the cap cut away to show the shell nose. Very interesting display and a marvelous site overall.

turlock · Post by **turlock** » Tue Jul 19, 2005 4:12 pm

The museum at the Washington, D.C. Navy Yard has a real one, along with a piece of face plate armor that was pierced on a test shoot with a 406mm. The plate is a spectacular, but meaningless display when you consider that the shot had to be point blank.
Both shell and armor plate are displayed outside, near a fourteen inch railway gun and have been there many years.

Ulrich Rudofsky · Post by **Ulrich Rudofsky** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 12:02 pm

http://www.gnt.net/~wright/armor1.jpg

iankw · Post by **iankw** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 5:19 pm

WoW - sort of puts "splinters" into perspective, doesn't it!!!

Ulrich Rudofsky · Post by **Ulrich Rudofsky** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 10:12 am

In & out views. In and out views http://www.gnt.net/~wright/navyard2.html

CIA · Post by **CIA** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:01 pm

Information about this test is here (by Nathan Okun) http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-040.htm

CIA · Post by **CIA** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 12:20 pm

Because these are my first registrations so I greet All warmly!
Very important info from this article
"Therefore, these plates are the only warship armor plates that could not be completely penetrated by ANY gun ever put on a warship when installed leaning back at 45°, as they were in the actual turrets!!! Even to completely hole the plate all the way through at that inclination requires a brand new 16"/50 Mark 7 or German 38cm SK C/34 gun at point-blank range firing the latest versions of their respective AP projectiles; it might be cracked at a lower striking velocity, but no hole put entirely through it! AND THEY SAID GUNS HAD COMPLETELY OVERMATCHED ALL ARMOR--*NOT SO*!!! "

turlock · Post by **turlock** » Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:58 pm

I didn't remember the sixteen on wheels. I thought it was in cradles. The railway gun, not pictured, is however a fourteen. Back in the '70's there evidently was a ww2 configured destroyer at the Washington Navy Yard also, but it's gone now.

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