FocusFire

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[โ€“] FocusFire@lemm.ee 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

my beloved ๐Ÿ’•

 
[โ€“] FocusFire@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago

Soldiers win battles, logistics wins space wars

[โ€“] FocusFire@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Perfect timing on the camera flip

[โ€“] FocusFire@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How is he the fastest person there?

 
 
[โ€“] FocusFire@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I think many of us here are current or former military

 
 
[โ€“] FocusFire@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago
[โ€“] FocusFire@lemm.ee 18 points 6 months ago

Good news they also have Tomahawks!

As part of their modernization in the 1980s, each of the Iowas received a complement of eight quad-cell Armored Box Launchers and four "shock hardened" Mk 141 quad-cell launchers. The former was used by the battleships to carry and fire the BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles (TLAMs) for use against enemy targets on land, while the latter system enabled the ships to carry a complement of RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles for use against enemy ships. With an estimated range of 675 to 1,500 nautical miles (1,250 to 2,778 km; 777 to 1,726 mi)[103] for the Tomahawks and 64.5 to 85.5 nautical miles (119.5 to 158.3 km; 74.2 to 98.4 mi)[103] for the Harpoons, these two missile systems displaced the 16-inch guns and their maximum range of 42,345 yards (38.7 km; 20.9 nmi)[36] to become the longest-ranged weapons on the battleships during the 1980s; the ships' complement of 32 Tomahawk missiles was the largest until the Mk 41 VLS-equipped Ticonderoga-class cruisers entered service.

[โ€“] FocusFire@lemm.ee 57 points 6 months ago (7 children)

A 1980s modernization lead to the Iowa class actually being equipped with some modern toys too

Sensors

  • Mark 13 fire control radar
  • Mark 25 fire control radar
  • AN/SPS-49
  • AN/SPS-67

Electronic Warfare and Decoys

  • AN/SLQ-32(V)3 electronic warfare system
  • AN/SLQ-25 Nixie acoustic decoy
  • Mark 36 SRBOC chaff rockets

Armament

  • 9 ร— 16 in/50 cal guns (3 Mounts x3)
  • 12 ร— 5 in/38 cal guns (6 Mounts x2)
  • 32 ร— BGM-109 Tomahawk launchers (8 Launchers x4)
  • 16 ร— RGM-84 Harpoon launchers (4 Mounts x4)
  • 4 ร— 20 mm Phalanx CIWS

and 5 UAVs

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Iowa-class_battleship

 
[โ€“] FocusFire@lemm.ee 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

* * * IGNITION SEQUENCE ACTIVATED * * *

[โ€“] FocusFire@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago

Magic Missile has a max range of 120 ft

[โ€“] FocusFire@lemm.ee 8 points 6 months ago
 
 
 
 

Gunners loading 40mm and 105mm aboard an AC-130

 
 
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