Excellent video ! This is the first time I have seen an up to date 16" breech opened. It is great a former Chief was available to instruct the next generation on how to open it. I would venture a guess that the substance covering the inside of the gun barrel is cosmolene.

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles

Жыл бұрын

We love senior chief. He's a wealth of info and a ton of fun. So lucky to have him. And yes, it's probably cosmolene. Certainly a preservative of some sort.

@spikespa5208

11 ай бұрын

The interrupted thread breech was simply ingenious for very large artillery pieces.

@Tunkkis

4 ай бұрын

​@@spikespa5208 And the stepped threads even more so.

@billmadison2032

3 ай бұрын

imagine having to do this under fire at Mach fuck

@Telephonebill51

2 ай бұрын

@@spikespa5208 For a breech weighing 27,000 pounds, it was a necessity.

I can smell this video! I do miss the sound of the air clearing the breech.

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles

Жыл бұрын

And Darin wins the comment section!

@sparkplug1018

Жыл бұрын

Nothing like the smell of iron and oil.

Looks almost brand new!

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles

Жыл бұрын

Right? What amazing workmanship and preservation!

@user-gd4wg8tr8e

Жыл бұрын

Вторую башню показывают?

Left gun was always awkward to open if you're right handed

@MikiLund

Ай бұрын

So you have worked these ?

@SgtFluffytheoriginal

Ай бұрын

​@@MikiLund yes

That’s amazing to see. Thank you for your efforts and this video.

Cant wait to get back to work with Education next week! -Miles

The sound pressure level must have been incredible

I guess I watched the Chief's work during a pac fire in the Aegean sea in 1987, from the USS Spiegel Grove lsd32.

It is weird seeing the breech opened without the accompanying high pressure air.

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles

Жыл бұрын

Sr Chief Keohnen is a magician! 😆

having a claustrophobia attack just looking at the cramped condition they had to work in. amazing.

Awesome video

Precarious above that pit.

That was freakining rad!!!

@kiereluurs1243

Жыл бұрын

English please.

fire away nine....BOOM! love it

I know it's not logistically possible to fire these guns again but man what a sight it would be

@SRR-5657

Жыл бұрын

Of all the ships I think the most likely candidate would be Missouri, perhaps for the 100th anniversary of V-J day. She's in excellent shape, probably the most historically significant ship of the 4 Iowa's, she doesn't have a long trip to get out to see where they can fire the guns without destroying windows and she's been out at sea in 20(10)?, Definitely more recently than the others I think. I seriously doubt they'd ever do it, I don't see the Navy handing over the powder bags for it especially given the Iowa Turret 2 accident, but if it did happen I think that's what they'd do.

@jastrapper190

6 ай бұрын

Stupid Government taking our rights away. The ATF just showed up demanding a $200.00 “tax stamp” to pay for our God given rights.

@wll1500

6 ай бұрын

@@SRR-5657 The powder would have to be made. I doubt any of the original powder still exists, I imagine it was all disposed of back in the 90s when they were inactivated for the last time. What they were firing in the Iowa turret explosion was like WW2 vintage stuff.

@wll1500

6 ай бұрын

@@SRR-5657 oh absolutely. It's a slim to none chance that they'll ever fire again, its just straight up zero chance they'd fire a live projectile lol

@amandahugankiss4110

6 ай бұрын

Zero? With fuck-boi sniffing up ww3? I wouldn't say zero.

Me and my dad loves this stuff

Really cool to see retirees helping out. Was ANY documentation left available? I’m sure some things were passed orally but I’m sure Navy had procedures for EVERYTHING, lol

That copper pipe entering the breech is that for lubrication?

So they are inside the turret and thats only one of three cannon breech?

I noticed that the British 15" guns, were fully hydraulic and did not require such exertion to open and close.

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles

11 ай бұрын

We don't have any power hooked up to ours or they would be, too.

The ultimate varmint gun💀

semper fi semper fortis

Never realized how cramped it was in there. Imagine doing this for real?

That guy looks like SGT Horvak

Aren't there user manuals for this operation, like "Step 1", "Step 2" etc. If there are none then they must be urgently written.

Magnifecint Engineering from a bygone era.

Oh my god, oh my god, oh my goddd!

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles

2 ай бұрын

😆👍 It's a bit of a wow when that thing opens!

What is the current condition of turret 2?

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/doSst6qTcsi1Ybw.html

@JB-hu5jm

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much.

Great video but couldn't hear a lot of it.

The sound sucks, can't really hear whats being said?

☺

And how much would, let's say, a 26'' shell weigh?

@Adamu98

Жыл бұрын

Probably 5 to 6 tons. A 16" shell weighs in at 1 ton.

@Georgi_Slavov

Жыл бұрын

@@Adamu98 i want a battle ship with such guns-one shell-one ship.

Now, how are you going to close it?

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles

Жыл бұрын

Leaving it open for now so visitors can see one breech closed and one open. To close it will require chain falls.

That is absolutely awesome!! You all know what we want! How’d the rifling look?

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles

Жыл бұрын

We'll show you. Stay tuned!

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles

Жыл бұрын

No rifling at the breech end, but here's what it looks like in this end of the gun: kzread.info/dash/bejne/h2V7uKmefrjWmNo.html

Needs better audio.

I wonder if in the history of battleships… with large enough calibers… has a man ever escaped a battleship by crawling out the gun barrel. I watched Ryan Sumanski crawl through a 16” BB spare barrel on dry land. I think it took him many many minutes to worm his way through but he did manage it. You would be properly screwed if the guns were pointing directly broadside because you would crawl out of a smoking pipe straight down into the Sea.

interesting, but you didn't make clear to them what the 'air' was for, not for firing, but for safety, to give excess air, and a flow path to the outside, just in case raw un-fired powder was left in the barrel, so that any ignition would occur, and be exhausted to the front, away from the inside, and to make this happen BEFORE the gun door was opened, so no fire would burn the crew!!{also in this case to reduce the pressure, so no shock wave would be released upon door opening} ( similar to 1800's cannons, this is a complex replacement of the bore soaking stick, does the same thing!).

Это на Айове во второй башне при досылке заряда произошло самовоспламенение?! Весь персонал погиб!

Question if they wanted to, could they fire the ammo for the 16" guns today, meaning that why not when they have a ship which is going to be decommissioned and sunk as a artificial reef, then use the large 16" guns to shoot at it, so that the barrels are kept like new and it would be such a massive media event that the whole world would watch it. 🦘🦘👌👌👍👍✌✌

@kevinthomas895

5 күн бұрын

New silk powder bags would have to be sewn and powder formulated (660lbs per shot). All the shells have been made inert but they could still punch a hole. Hydraulic pumps would have to be tested and electrical connections re-established. A big generator would have to be brought on board. Also the ship would be a dead ship tow which requires extra insurance and special care by a tug company. Such an exercise would have to be under the authority of the Navy since the museum organization cannot fire the weapon systems.