Bret Devereaux Twitterissä: "Wisconsin has twelve five-inch guns (in 6 double-mounts); on its own that would be a massive amount of firepower, but the 9 16-inch main guns are the stars. That said, BB-64 had 20 5-inch guns when launched. What happened to the others? Well, Uncle Sam got some new toys:… https://t.co/l5qHpq7wNH"

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 23. toukok.

While I was in Norfolk for #SMH2021 I got a chance to see the Wisconsin (BB-64), because I am an absolute sucker for museum ships! So here are some pictures.pic.twitter.com/5rQ8NGhjRh

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 23. toukok.

I find battleship design fascinating because of how preposterous it is. You start with the question "how do we move nine 16-inch guns into the battlespace" which is an *absurd* question and then plan the rest of the ship from there. Bow turrets, viewed from beside the bridge:pic.twitter.com/F1cXaC6wLB

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 23. toukok.

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If you've never been on a battleship - one, do so, there are a bunch of good museum ships in the USA on both coasts - it's hard to describe just how massive the main battery is. @pptsapper got a really good picture to give a sense of scale here:https://twitter.com/pptsapper/status/1396567288313221124 …

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Boom. Much boom. pic.twitter.com/UvNmoQZ0XX

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 23. toukok.

The day I was there, there was a commissioning ceremony happening on the bow. For scale, the sailors there are standing where @pptsapper's picture was taken.pic.twitter.com/UDxLufGu0X

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 23. toukok.

When you are walking the ship, you really get a sense of just how much the whole thing is shaped around that main battery (alas, the interior of the turrets and barbette (the armored cylinder that extends down from the turrets) on BB-64 are not open to the public).pic.twitter.com/NqZuurobGs

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 23. toukok.

I wrote about that facet of warship-design back when we talked about science fiction warships: https://acoup.blog/2019/12/20/collections-starships-in-silhouette/ … The guns on the Wisconsin can throw a 1,200kg shell just about 21 miles and you can really see how the entire ship is bent around that purpose.

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 23. toukok.

You also have the secondary battery. As we discussed on the blog, the secondaries really were secondary - you put them where they fit after the primary armament. But this is a double 5-inch gun mount! By land standards, that's still quite big and they mount them in doubles!pic.twitter.com/Pv298u2QBQ

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 23. toukok.

(This turret has been claimed by the Marines because it was operating by part of the ship's Marine detachment during the Gulf War in a shore-bombardment capacity - if you were wondering about the decoration)

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 23. toukok.

The 'inches' here refer to the diameter of the barrel (and thus the shell). For comparison, consider the (smaller) 120mm (4.72inch) main gun on an M1A2 Abrams tank. Bigger than the 105mm m119 howitzer and only slightly smaller than the 155mm m777 gun-howitzer.

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Bret Devereaux‏ @BretDevereaux 23. toukok.

Wisconsin has twelve five-inch guns (in 6 double-mounts); on its own that would be a massive amount of firepower, but the 9 16-inch main guns are the stars. That said, BB-64 had 20 5-inch guns when launched. What happened to the others? Well, Uncle Sam got some new toys:pic.twitter.com/1ZzAowHY5i