{"id":68311,"date":"2016-10-05T10:58:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=68311"},"modified":"2016-10-05T10:58:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T14:58:35","slug":"surplus-splodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=68311","title":{"rendered":"Surplus ‘splodies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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David sends us a link to Popular Mechanics<\/a> which reports that the Army is trying to decide what to do with a number of old 16″ Navy artillery shells that they have laying around for the Iowa-class destroyers which were retired after the Cold War;<\/p>\n

According to Federal Business Opportunities, the Army has 15,595 16-inch artillery shells sitting at Crane Army Ammunition Activity in Crane, Indiana. These shells were intended for the 16″\/50 caliber main guns of the Iowa-class battleships\u2014like the U.S.S. New Jersey in the video below\u2014which were the biggest guns ever mounted on a U.S. Navy ship. However, these ships, first commissioned for World War II, are now enjoying a much-deserved retirement, having exited service at the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n

But these ships’ rounds are still hanging around and they’re the real deal, built to smash other battleships\u2014and hardened beach fortifications\u2014to bits. The stockpile includes high capacity high explosive rounds, armor piercing shells, and practice rounds. Each high capacity round weighs 2,054 pounds, with 154 pounds of high explosive and a 1,900-pound steel body. Each armor piercing shell weighs 2,700 pounds and is filled with either 41 pounds of explosives or up to 666 grenades.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

David is wondering if any of you have suggestions on how to help the Army with this dilemma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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