Opening The Breech On A 16 Inch Gun

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Always striving for ways to make guest experience more fun and more interesting, we decided to open the breech on one of our 16" guns. Now, when you take our gun tour (pacificbattleship.com/experie..., you'll be able to see what a 16" breech looks like open and closed.
Hint: it's super cool in both configurations.
Also fun to have retired senior chief Rich Koehnen around to give our team some direction and insider tips. Chief Koehnen spent eight years in the battleship program and is a wonderful wealth of information. (Come see us again soon, Senior Chief!)
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@phillipbouchard4197 Год назад

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 Год назад

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 месяцев назад

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

@Tunkkis 3 месяца назад

@@spikespa5208 And the stepped threads even more so.

@billmadison2032 2 месяца назад

imagine having to do this under fire at Mach fuck

@Telephonebill51 Месяц назад

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

@darincalhoun3687 Год назад

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

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles Год назад

And Darin wins the comment section!

@sparkplug1018 Год назад

Nothing like the smell of iron and oil.

@Morstad64 Год назад

Looks almost brand new!

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles Год назад

Right? What amazing workmanship and preservation!

@user-gd4wg8tr8e 11 месяцев назад

Вторую башню показывают?

@WiliiamNoTell 2 месяца назад

The sound pressure level must have been incredible

@jastrapper190 5 месяцев назад

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

@SgtFluffytheoriginal Год назад

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

@MikiLund 14 дней назад

So you have worked these ?

@SgtFluffytheoriginal 14 дней назад

@@MikiLund yes

@sandybarrie5526 Месяц назад

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

@MilesStratton Год назад

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

@user-kp9jk5jf6x 7 дней назад

Me and my dad loves this stuff

@CRAZYHORSE19682003 Год назад

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

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles Год назад

Sr Chief Keohnen is a magician! 😆

@frankbarnwell____ Год назад

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

@kiereluurs1243 Год назад

Precarious above that pit.

@alexanderleach3365 2 месяца назад

Awesome video

@oldcarnocar Год назад

fire away nine....BOOM! love it

@scowboy1006 Год назад

That was freakining rad!!!

@kiereluurs1243 Год назад

English please.

@fox2102 Год назад

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

@SRR-5657 Год назад

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 5 месяцев назад

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 5 месяцев назад

@@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 5 месяцев назад

@@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 5 месяцев назад

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

@gregoryf9299 9 месяцев назад

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

@NickHaus683 2 дня назад

That guy looks like SGT Horvak

@peckelhaze6934 11 месяцев назад

That copper pipe entering the breech is that for lubrication?

@MikiLund 14 дней назад

Magnifecint Engineering from a bygone era.

@Mike-du4tq 2 месяца назад

The ultimate varmint gun💀

@gruntforever7437 3 месяца назад

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

@paulmoffat9306 11 месяцев назад

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

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles 11 месяцев назад

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

@exxpxsedd Месяц назад

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

@Paulftate Год назад

semper fi semper fortis

@ArthurShelby... Месяц назад

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

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles Месяц назад

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

@chuckg2016 5 месяцев назад

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

@mibli2935 10 месяцев назад

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

@JB-hu5jm Год назад

What is the current condition of turret 2?

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles Год назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DPxUHZBeO1Y.html

@JB-hu5jm Год назад

Thank you very much.

@ColKorn1965 Год назад

☺

@waynefarmer3044 2 месяца назад

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

@Georgi_Slavov Год назад

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

@Adamu98 Год назад

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

@Georgi_Slavov Год назад

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

@jastrapper190 5 месяцев назад

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.

@kiphenry4684 Год назад

Now, how are you going to close it?

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles Год назад

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

@Ricky40369 8 месяцев назад

Needs better audio.

@andyvan5692 8 месяцев назад

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!).

@mdtransmissionspecialties Год назад

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

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles Год назад

We'll show you. Stay tuned!

@BattleshipUSSIowaLosAngeles Год назад

No rifling at the breech end, but here's what it looks like in this end of the gun: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U1GVGeNUphw.html

@user-gd4wg8tr8e 11 месяцев назад

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

@7071t6 2 месяца назад

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. 🦘🦘👌👌👍👍✌✌