It’s intoxicating listening to someone who is not only knowledgable but who also loves what he’s doing.
@kind23114 жыл бұрын
It's interesting that someone so knowledgeable would not know how to properly pronounce "coriolis", and "muzzle". He clearly says "corliolis" and "muscle". You'd think this dude who probably does tours like this several times a day, would know how pronounce those words properly. Edit: LMAO uhh it's a year later and ya'll keep replying to me, so yeah, I'm gonna keep rresponding back. You KZfaq commentators are the cream-of-the-special-education-crop. Jesus christ you all must have aspergers or ASD or something and teacher left you alone on the class computer to get mad at people who are both smarter and wittier than you. God damn. Well, keep 'em coming, losers. This guy sucks and so do you.
@robotslug4 жыл бұрын
@@kind2311 I bet you stutter when making an order at Wendys.
@kind23114 жыл бұрын
@@robotslug Do you mean _placing_ an order, or _taking_ an order? Because when you _make_ an order, you use your hands, not your voice. If you're gonna try to insult someone based on them insulting someone else which has no effect on you, at least do it right.
@robotslug4 жыл бұрын
@@kind2311 P-P-Pickles?!
@mattw3354 жыл бұрын
@@kind2311 shut up
@whoknowsmehere26243 жыл бұрын
Those guns were so accurate that in the 80s when they modernized the Iowa class battleships they didn't replace the old analog targeting system for the guns.
@sicknote15582 жыл бұрын
Why replace something that is so accurate and can takes a lot bother
@pnw.yfz3502 жыл бұрын
And they used rc planes to make sure the shells were falling on target and it make even better adjustments
@casey65562 жыл бұрын
The best part is that it isn’t even just a case of “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. They researched replacing the computers with digital/electronic ones in the 80s, and were told that with the level of redundancy and accuracy required it wouldn’t save any space, power, or money
@AugustusTitus2 жыл бұрын
They had them dialed in, plus those munitions are so large a little circular error probability isn't much of a problem because of the blast radius.
@Sapper201D Жыл бұрын
I had read back in the 90's that there was an attempt to replace the analog with digital. The results led to the decision to leave well enough alone. The analogs performance could not be matched by digital.
@patricks_music4 жыл бұрын
The fact that the computer calculated that all in 1938 is amazing
@Darryl_Frost3 жыл бұрын
There are some really good videos on YT about fire control and analog computers.. makes you think about computers in a different way.
@alitlweird3 жыл бұрын
That computer was designed by using slide rules. it makes the moon landing deniers look that much more ignorant. NASA engineers basically went to the moon using steampunk technology.
@Belioyt3 жыл бұрын
It's also sad that for we humans, we are at our most creative when figuring out how to kill each other
@JokahFACE3 жыл бұрын
@@Belioyt Getting rounds on target before your opponent does is a powerful impetus for technological improvement
@bmay88183 жыл бұрын
I'm just totally blown away by these computers! They're like having clocks that control clocks that control clocks or something. All of that calculating is done with gears and wheels, which is so so much more impressive than some silicon, though the density of transistors in the latter is amazing. I don't know what integrating is in a mathematical sense, but I believe these analog computers use "ball and disc integrators", which by themselves are very clever devices.
@a-hvlogs20465 жыл бұрын
Just picked up my battleship! Good to know! they didnt show this at the dealership
@Weetbix19695 жыл бұрын
if it helps i have the M113 Ops manual which has the manual included for the .50cal LOL
@since4everrr5 жыл бұрын
you can't get armed battleships in canada :(
@adamchurvis15 жыл бұрын
Did you opt for the ClearCoat? I didn't. I think they rip you off on the ClearCoat.
@tubedude545 жыл бұрын
Mine had rust in the rifling! I said I wanted them relined and they said it would take 6 months and to just fire a few rounds thru each and that would take care of it...
@lackofboringstuf23475 жыл бұрын
Did you actually like for real buy a battle ship?
@ethanlambert52565 жыл бұрын
3:06 anyone notice the guy saying “I have the strangest erection right now”
@imhappyxd94985 жыл бұрын
fcken sent it
@daftbence5 жыл бұрын
LOL :D
@HUEEY5 жыл бұрын
Yup
@krazicanuck90455 жыл бұрын
Lmao.
@Germdonor-5 жыл бұрын
Me and him have something in common.... oh wait not anymore I just finished.
Usually when you accidentally tap a trigger you send a round down range and get a stern talking to. Worst case you kill somebody. You accidentally tap this trigger, and you're a war criminal.
@jth8777 жыл бұрын
He's much more enthusiastic than the guide I had, but he didn't mention that the "triggers" are fired through the gyroscopic computer which ensures the gun are at the correct elevation when actually fired. In heavy seas it can take a second or two for the training mechanisms to catch up with the roll of the ship and fire the guns.
@chrisbuck29187 жыл бұрын
jth877 that's pretty cool shit.
@illbuyourniknak5 жыл бұрын
The gentleman in this video was the former curator of the ship.
@antonhofmann17965 жыл бұрын
He did 4:10
@asherdie5 жыл бұрын
He mentioned it was roll compensation
@yoooopery5 жыл бұрын
I don't remember my guide being very enthusiastic about it. We did go through all of the demos allthough it wasn't in this much detail.
@Deathrising993 жыл бұрын
:slaps the fire control system “ you can sink so many islands with this bad boy”
@kevinbock2617 жыл бұрын
i love how this guy engages the crowd and is enthusiastic with his presentation.
@unfortunately_fortunate20005 жыл бұрын
thats what presenters do for a living. literally everyone that works with crowds does this, if no they will not have that job for very long.
@JamezOwnU1015 жыл бұрын
@@unfortunately_fortunate2000 little late on the explanation, eh bud?
@JamezOwnU1015 жыл бұрын
@@unfortunately_fortunate2000 Hahaha! I love it!! Stay cool, ya fuckin' hoser
@user-qj6lj4iq2b5 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@unfortunately_fortunate20005 жыл бұрын
@TheEnd not that it is any of your business but no, I'm 19 & quite enjoy being a schmuck an douchebag on the internet. why does my age concern you? what would my age really change, exactly? the internet is about having fun, if picking arguments on the web gives me joy, why does this concern you or anybody else for that matter? what are you, the YT commenter police?
@jjaagg50505 жыл бұрын
I attend church with a guy who served on the New Jersey at the end of WWII and then Korea. I could sit by the hour listening to his stories. He was boiler tech.
@coryaw955 жыл бұрын
Jesus dude, those guys were in some shit. I went onto the USS Yorktown, saw the boiler rooms and saw old footage. These guys would work in 120 or so degrees, sometimes hotter. You're in a cramped space, with poor ventilation. Granted, I observed air ducts pointed towards the stations. Though I suspect they're more modern implements to keep the tour goers cool. If they suspected a steam leak, they were to grab a broom so they could locate the leak. They would find it when the bristles of the broom instantly vaporized. It wasn't easy work. The things our ancestors had to go through..most adversity today pales in comparison.
@GraemeSPa5 жыл бұрын
I worked on merchant ships in the engine room for most of my working life. I know heat and shit and sweat - but at no time was anyone trying to kill me. A bomb or torpedo in the engine room will kill the entire watch - a near miss could fracture a high pressure steam line or feedwater line and cook everyone in that compartment. In my early days I sailed with men who had been on the Atlantic and Northern Russian convoys and they had very little to tell because their memories were too horrific to recall. I also visited WW2 era Royal Navy ships and witnessed the long dogs on the outside of the watertight compartments to stop anyone getting out of a rapidly flooding space and jeopardising the ship. Join the Navy and see the world.
@stephenhunter704 жыл бұрын
@@coryaw95 Superheated steam can't be seen, unlike saturated steam. How do I know this, used to help operate a side wheel paddle steamer.
@deltaimaging57744 жыл бұрын
@@coryaw95 my dad was a BT from 51-55 on a DE and an APD (converted DE). he told me of when they were doing gunnery practice off Vieque Island and the ventilation broke down. over 150o with a 10 minute watch rotation. 10 in the hole, 10 to come up to the deck for air then repeat. and then the time in the North Atlantic escorting the USS Mindoro (escort carrier) in november in a storm where the blowers were bringing in such frigid air they had difficulty breathing. they had to stand with their backs to the boilers.
@corytheviking52394 жыл бұрын
Neighbor was a boiler operator on the CV-12 in Vietnam, those guys always have some cool tales!
@danforbess69413 жыл бұрын
The guy holding the firing triggers is where my Father stood during WWII. He's the guy that made the Big Guns go BOOM on the Iowa!!
@nitsu29473 жыл бұрын
i'd probably say RIP everytime i fired those guns
@caballopalido2 жыл бұрын
YEAH WELL MY MOM WORKS AT TAMPA BAY HOOTERS
@mdante_t2 жыл бұрын
Damn that's sick
@moneyman15882 жыл бұрын
@@caballopalido hell yeah buddy
@lanfrancoadreani92122 жыл бұрын
So your father could have killed thousands of people, impressive.
@gfinnstrom5 жыл бұрын
my dad was re-assigned to the USS New Jersey... after shot down from carrier duty... he loved this ship like all of those who served on it... i found out anyone who has served on this great ship and passed away there is a roll call memorial.it took me a month and half to get him on the list which is where he will be forever in history
@acvaticlifE2 жыл бұрын
Forever, or at least, how long the servers will exist.
@sicknote15582 жыл бұрын
Respect 🙏
@patricklenigan430911 ай бұрын
Or as long as humans are
@SirFloofy0016 жыл бұрын
I love the people commenting about how its not a 50 caliber gun. The title doesn't say 50 caliber it says 16 inch 50 caliber which means the diameter of the gun is 16 inches and the length of the gun is 50 calibers which means it is 50 x the diameter or 50x16 inches
@divarachelenvy5 жыл бұрын
bingo
@io5045 жыл бұрын
@Eric explain why he's wrong
@meatspud41175 жыл бұрын
Caliber = the internal diameter or bore of a gun barrel. which is 16" in this case.
@MIKEDUZZI4205 жыл бұрын
50 caliber is 1/2" so are you saying its 16" in diameter and its only 1/2" long?
@MrTangent5 жыл бұрын
MIKEDUZZI en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/16%22/50_caliber_Mark_7_gun Read the Wikipedia description. It explains it. :)
@usmc91275 жыл бұрын
I was on her for the Vietnam tour. 9/5/68 to 5/5/69. I remember when we took out Tiger Island. 🇺🇸🇺🇸
@robertf34794 жыл бұрын
I heard about that originally when I was stationed on Okinawa in 1973, I was told that New Jersey was taking fire from an old Japanese bunker and shore battery position that the NVA had taken over and mounted guns in. They damaged a couple of cruisers, or so I was told. You have to admit that to a land lubber an Iowa class BB in profile looks a bit like a Baltimore class CA so it's likely the North Vietnamese had no idea what it was they were pissing off. They missed, New Jersey didn't. The story teller said that when New Jersey was dismantling that installation one of her 16" rounds found the gun emplacement magazine. It went up and the island topography was seriously rearranged. Still very impressive.
@usmc91274 жыл бұрын
Robert F Okinawa ... my first tour before the Jersey, I was with 2/3. They were out of Okinawa. Semper Fi
@randyghilarducci95094 ай бұрын
I was there also, news said the shore line changed. It did look like a different island.
@usmc91274 ай бұрын
@@randyghilarducci9509 were you on the New Jersey ? I was in 4th division
@illbuyourniknak5 жыл бұрын
Jason Hall. BB-62 Curator. RIP you shall be missed.
@danhillman45235 жыл бұрын
What? He died? How old? What a shame.
@illbuyourniknak5 жыл бұрын
Dan Hillman He passed away this past summer, he was 43 I believe. Lost a battle with a brain tumor.
@williamt.sherman98415 жыл бұрын
@@illbuyourniknakto bad. so young.
@pauldoyle27085 жыл бұрын
RIP. Those brave battleship sailors will take good care of him up there.
@danhillman45235 жыл бұрын
@@illbuyourniknak Damn.
@youreaveragepotato33375 жыл бұрын
A day later in the news: "Canada got randomly exploded"
@lackofboringstuf23475 жыл бұрын
Lol
@kikoredog5 жыл бұрын
Canada has the best ground troops in the world my friend =) but yall got the navy on lock
@hiphen38585 жыл бұрын
@@kikoredog 2 rite my (possibly) fellow canadian
@LilNeenerMcWomanRaypist5 жыл бұрын
kikoredog Notice how he made a joke. And didn’t insult Canada? So why did you get butthurt?
@archaicpriest86805 жыл бұрын
kikoredog America beats every other country
@Willaev3 жыл бұрын
“When you flush your toilet which direction does the water go?” Down.
@jimkenealy64483 жыл бұрын
So what happens if you are traveling directly over the equator - hmmmm? chaos!
@seanbreheny97773 жыл бұрын
Yeah I rolled my eyes at that question, too. That has nothing to do with Coriolis effect. (It's not even true that draining water circulates one way in the Northern hemisphere and the other way in the Southern)
@Cocandre2 жыл бұрын
@@seanbreheny9777 it is only true if your toilet is various kms in diameter.
@Shifftee2 жыл бұрын
What did the guy in the video reply after which everyone started laughing? I heard "Red Bull light" but that doesn't make sense
@Omnihil7773 жыл бұрын
There's a tremendous difference between for instance a german museum ship and an US one, especially the great NJ: You'll get a REAL tour there, here you'll get a signs, with luck a shallow description from someone, but as everyone can see on the mighty NJ everbody really has an experience. That stucks with him / her. Awesome. Exemplary. Many museums around the world can learn from you guys, in my humble opinion. When I'm back in the states, 2022, I'll visit you with my family. I'm very excited, my wife not so much ("Another military museum? ooh-kaaaay"), but she will understand when she watches this ;) Thank you all for preserving LIVING history, that's so so important!
@Sleepydill3 жыл бұрын
Thanks I’ve had my battleship for about 9 months now just now figuring it out, finally got to the guns and needed to look up a tutorial thanks!
@OVRxNxOUT2 жыл бұрын
Did you get the heated trigger grips option with yours? I went & head n’ splurged on myself a little cuz not only did I get em’ heated but also cooled. Fuel mileage is piss poor on her though but whatev…
@pdillman57415 жыл бұрын
Jason Hall. RIP. True historian. God Speed.
@HotGlahbi3 жыл бұрын
He died?
@daniel_sannguyen3 жыл бұрын
@@HotGlahbi Summer 2018
@sicknote15582 жыл бұрын
That was really sad 😔 too here that
@buzaldrin80863 жыл бұрын
In case it hasn't been mentioned, the US built nuclear shells for the Iowa-class battleships main guns. They were the W23 warhead. Yield was 15-20 kilotons, a total of 50 units being produced. Production of the W23 began in 1956 and they were in service until 1962.
@miming36792 жыл бұрын
Bro 15kt is the equivalent to the bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki wtf
@ominouslatinnoun993911 ай бұрын
Some days you just didn’t really feel like expending more than 3 shells to take out an enemy ship.
@ichabodon4 жыл бұрын
My, my, my. The gear on the New Jersey is incredible for the 1940’s and still in excellent condition. Good for the USA for saving these beautiful BB’s
@chuck61876 жыл бұрын
Old school analog technology I love it!
@jblyon25 жыл бұрын
You mean the captain doesn't just go "Mr Worf, quantum torpedoes, fire!"?
@zingyguy62215 жыл бұрын
he probably could
@mohammednasheed96385 жыл бұрын
Well he’s the captain they probably have to
@brooklyn5605 жыл бұрын
Well he hasn't been born yet
@nws_of_cushing_ok71884 жыл бұрын
Ah a fellow trekkie
@Irishcream2164 жыл бұрын
I think you meant photon torpedoes.
@jawadibrahim23673 жыл бұрын
that fire control computer is truly a thing of beauty. all mechanical analog computing that's robust and reliable, I hope the knowledge to make such devices isn't lost.
@thetreblerebel3 жыл бұрын
Truly state of the art in 38.. used until the 90s shows that the system worked and need no upgraded
@MrTangent5 жыл бұрын
This guide is awesome. Love the story about the Navy sinking the island.
@speed150mph3 жыл бұрын
I don't think anyone recognizes how good of a tour guide this man is. He clearly picked out a couple of people there that might not have been paying attention, and got them involved and engaged in what was happening. Not everyone is good with books. My wife can't remember anything she learned from a history class, but she still remembers things she learned when we toured HMCS Haida because it was something she got to see, touch, experience. That can make a difference. Good news, I'm planning to come visit New Jersey and a bunch of other ships from western Canada probably next year or the year after. Can't wait
@_Matsimus_4 жыл бұрын
3:26........ youre welcome...
@toastpulver34223 жыл бұрын
u here?
@stingfing4123 жыл бұрын
0:00........... you’re welcome...
@jasoncarswell74583 жыл бұрын
are you talking about the girl on the left? Looks like my ex.
@sevensixxtwo-l2r3 жыл бұрын
@@stingfing412 Right, this guy talking has a lot of character.
@GriseWeisshark3 жыл бұрын
What am I looking at?
@BenjWarrant3 жыл бұрын
The thing about toilet flushing and the Coriolis effect is a modern myth.
@batmanzutoplankton8657 жыл бұрын
Outstanding vid. Terrific explanation of how the big guns are managed
@Brace675 жыл бұрын
Fascinating to hear such a detailed description of the process used in firing the New Jersey’s big 16 inch guns and the technology of long ago which was apparently very sophisticated for that era.
@rafnick445 жыл бұрын
And they still work...
@Cirux3215 жыл бұрын
Good enough that they didnt replace it during the 80's modernization for the simple fact that no electronic fire control system we had in the 80's was as reliable and accurate as this engineering marvel in and of itself invented some 50 years prior.
@alanmodimages5 жыл бұрын
I heard a computer science gut was tasked during the modernization of these ships to come up with a better fire control system. After extensive research he wrote back and said 'Forget about it"!
@Moose63403 жыл бұрын
It was incredibly sophisticated. All done mechanically with very precisely-machined gears and gyros. And it still worked perfectly fifty years later to the point where they didn't bother to retrofit a fancier digital computer system onto the guns. I do wonder how many spare parts they had available though in the 1980s-90s for the recommissioning.
@Accuaro3 жыл бұрын
0:04 BTW this a myth guys, your toilet flushes the other way depending on where the water jets out. It's dependant on the actual toilet.
@judgeomega3 жыл бұрын
i think he meant the natural flow of draining water, not a toilet.
@tedwilson95893 жыл бұрын
What the man said is true . Research and learn .
@Accuaro2 жыл бұрын
@@judgeomega Legit didn't get notifications for this until I had the video recommended to me again LMAO. But yeah I get you, but the man clearly said "flush your toilets".
@chadthundercock86355 жыл бұрын
All these people commenting about how it’s says 50 cal and how is wrong lmao no it is correct. The cal doesn’t only stand for diameter of but in this case the length of the gun in relation to diameter. So since it is a 16 inch gun (406mm) and the cal is 50, that means the gun is 50 times as long as it is wide. 16x50 is 800. The gun is 800 inches long.
@dalea16914 жыл бұрын
After 100 comments, i haven't seen anyone call it .50 cal. I'm not going through all of them. Did you?
@shamefurdispray60773 жыл бұрын
@@dalea1691 Well it is in the title (Firing the 16" 50 caliber guns on the Battleship New Jersey) Protip - ctrl+f for finding text.
@charlescsmith12137 жыл бұрын
Water in the toilet goes whichever way the toilet was designed. Coriolis effect has nothing to do with how your toilet flushes
@cmdrgarbage18955 жыл бұрын
Random information matters people
@GrasshopperKelly5 жыл бұрын
Yes, we physicists know that. But he's trying to explain the plotting rooms account of the coriolis effect quickly, to slightly more simple people :p
@mercurysmodels67215 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/aq95icmgqdu6eas.html This is a perfect demonstration that coriolis does have an effect. Or is the earth flat?
@gamingassassin55 жыл бұрын
@@mercurysmodels6721 those are tourist scams
@PugilistCactus5 жыл бұрын
Old toilets don't do that.
@dcdanger61513 жыл бұрын
During the tour of the USS Iowa the guide indicated that the bow and stern could be blown off but the center fire control would still be operational
@athemkashung44865 жыл бұрын
Love his attitude so humble and friendly.
@_multiverse_5 жыл бұрын
"I have the Strangest erection right now" What a legend
@unfortunately_fortunate20005 жыл бұрын
boss* you mean?
@maruftim5 жыл бұрын
Although it's not strange, cause I do.
@ljprep62505 жыл бұрын
Buy the 2012 movie "Battleship". If the guns don't do it for you, and the soundtrack doesn't do it for you, both Rhianna and Brooklyn will.
@CJ-rg4qu Жыл бұрын
This tour guide is excellent at his job. Give him a raise!!
@rikspring Жыл бұрын
Agree, he is so good and enthusiastic
@danielmarshall45874 жыл бұрын
"take a 2700lb object and hit a moving target 22miles away" OUTSTANDING
@GriseWeisshark3 жыл бұрын
It wasn't really accurate tho. He's quite exaggerating it. There's a large margin of error. There's a reason why battleships got obsolete because missiles were more accurate and have a longer range.
@CRAZYHORSE196820033 жыл бұрын
@@GriseWeisshark By the standards of the day the MK-8 Rangekeeper was deadly quite accurate. The USS West Virginia fired on the Japanese Battleship Yamashiro at 13 miles and hit her on the FIRST salvo and hit Yamashiro on 6 of the next 7 salvos.
@seasons17453 жыл бұрын
@@CRAZYHORSE19682003 plus dude above failed to notice the mechanical FCS wasn’t even replaced through out its life and 91 when it was retired and electric FCS had been around
@roobear785 жыл бұрын
neat piece of history and remarkable for its time,by the way the fancy shmansy new ships have the modern version of the hamster in a wheel crewman its called a ups but i can see how this looked good on the tour
@WilliamPitcher5 жыл бұрын
Yeah, if power backup was important then, it's important now. I imagine they have independent battery backup that they use before hand-cranking as a third option -- but that's just a guess.
@bufferbuffer73205 жыл бұрын
@@WilliamPitcher Emergency generators as 2 line and backup batteries as third line. But anyways. What he didn't mentioned, if there happens to be a total blackout on the New Jersey (including emergency generators etc.), good luck turning that 2100 tons turret by hand, let alone rising the 121 tons barrel up. That may work with the secondary, but not with the main artillery.
@RCAvhstape3 жыл бұрын
At the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal USS South Dakota suffered a power failure just as she was engaging the Japanese formation at night and it shut her down hard, except for propulsion. No way to load, aim and fire the guns, even with a guy turning a hand crank or whatever. The Kirishima and other Japanese ships tried to shoot her up while she struggled, but USS Washington was with her, got a quick radar solution, and turned Kirishima into swiss chees in short order, saving the bacon and winning the battle.
@TouchableGrass7 жыл бұрын
Okay, so all the people commenting about the difference between a 16" gun and a 50 Cal, there is none. He was right in his explanation, those are the Mk 7 50 caliber guns. It is 16" wide, and 50 calibers long (406mm guns).
@eaterofclams5 жыл бұрын
...basic math time...50 x 16 inches does not equal 406 mm. 50x16=800...inches. not mm. 800 inches=66.7 feet ...the length of the gun barrel. 406 mm is less than half a meter in length. Picture, if you will, the 16 inch guns of this battleship, with a length of less than 18 inches. Heck of a mortar though...
@blakeerickson5145 жыл бұрын
@@eaterofclams I'm not sure if you're trolling or not but 406 mm comes out to... 16 inches. They're 406 mm wide, not long.
@meowmeowmeow5945 жыл бұрын
THANK YOU
@lukewarmwater64125 жыл бұрын
@@eaterofclams these are accual guns. what most people call guns are rifles and pistols. rifle and pistol caliber is just that. rifle and pistol, not guns. shot used to be weighed, not measured in a caliber, or tenths of inches. by that scale this would be a 3600 pounder? honestly I think sailors do this because they can. they spend so much time out at sea they get bored and make this stuff up and its always blindingly hot so none of it makes much sense. but damn if they are going to admit anything like that to a stinkin' land lubber.....
@CousinBowling5 жыл бұрын
@@eaterofclams you're absolutely wrong. Delete this comment.
@rob288033 жыл бұрын
On DDGs We had a room packed full of analog computing equipment like this, synchros, servos, integrators and the like, after the upgrade there was a small digital computer inside this cavernous empty room.
@bxrvxjsc11193 жыл бұрын
I watched the New Jersey fire those rounds over us in Nam. The ship was just offshore from us. Amazing.
@vaahtobileet5 жыл бұрын
The technology is actually very interesting (especially the simple salvo alarm, I always wondered about that). It's strange to think how minerals mined from the earth end up becoming these carefully thought up ships, some of which carry planes, all in the purpose of warfare and domination. Somehow these specific designs became the world standard for a while. It's all a continuation from the spear and the shield. The constant audience reactions and comments are something that would be more rare in Finland, just a cultural difference :D
@beverlychmelik55045 жыл бұрын
Personally, I like the RN firing gongs. Bing Bing.....BOOM!
@scout89402 жыл бұрын
This man was a absolute legend of a tour guide
@obiphil86724 жыл бұрын
World war 2 naval gunnery was a highly intricate and delicate business. Took tremendous efforts for guns to be laid on target and even greater efforts to enable them to hit the enemy. And so easy to breakdown from mechanical failures or battle damage. No wonder it was quickly replaced mid war by carrier airstrike, which was 100 times simpler!
@Enkaged2 жыл бұрын
Never got to shoot a gun from a battle ship, but i can say i got to turn the key and launch a nuclear missile at the Titan museum. The tour guides are allways informative and have a great sense of hummor.
@jims94065 жыл бұрын
Love that crank here in case of power loss. Genius for the day and probably this day and age. KISS
@donniemontoya93007 жыл бұрын
I love tour guides like this guy.
@leelawrence15574 жыл бұрын
I served on New Jersey BB62 from 1985 to 1987. Got to fire the 16" guns locally. It was a rush to day the least. And you just cannot imagine the firepower until you actually see and feel the main battery go off.
@Native_love Жыл бұрын
Wow! Human ingenuity and engineering! Beautiful!
@plainlogic5 жыл бұрын
Caliber in this naval usage is one bore diameter. And the gun is designated as the 16/50 caliber mark 7. It is 50 calibers(of bore diameter or 50x 16 inches) long. .50 caliber is .5 inches. So 1" is equal to a caliber defined in most Imperial countries before the metric system was widely used.
@randall19593 жыл бұрын
While he's waiting for the projectiles to fly through the air the enemy is watching them coming in and pissing in their pants knowing there's nothing they can do but brace for impact.
@edwaggoner74033 жыл бұрын
That is the MK-1 or 1A fire control computer used directing the guns on US naval vessels. I worked for NAVSUP when the battleships were being restored and had to procure spare/repair parts for that computer. I can assure you they do not make them like that any more. It was very difficult and had to salvage many parts from old mothballed ship and museum pieces, have them refurbished and tested.
@erwin6695 жыл бұрын
There is a crazy amount of data that is taken into account when firing long range artillery. Propellant temperature, weight of the projectile, air pressure at multiple elevations, firing unit's location, the target's location, condition of the inside of the gun tube, even the curvature of the Earth for very long range shots. When I was at the Artillery School at Ft Sill we learned to calculate it with slide rules, protractors, and firing tables on pen and paper before we got to use a firing computer.
@MIKEDUZZI4205 жыл бұрын
Look up caliber definition. It says that in fire arms it refers to to the internal diameter of the firearm. With artillery caliber is multiplied by the diameter and is the length of the bore.
@Efemral5 жыл бұрын
Nerd here. The Coriolis Effect is important on big scales like firing from a ship, but it is too weak to affect your toilet water.
@sideswipe1475 жыл бұрын
Efemral its basically the rotation of the earth which is what effects toilet water.
@bufferbuffer73205 жыл бұрын
@@sideswipe147Theoretically, as the Coriolis force is caused by that very rotation of the Earth. Only if Egemral wouldn't be right.
@sideswipe1475 жыл бұрын
Buffer Buffer ah but it does effect the waters drain rotation. facts are such pesky little things.
@bufferbuffer73205 жыл бұрын
@@sideswipe147 Yes, it dows (e.g. in the bathing tube), but not in the toilet (maybe it does in these strange, water-filled US-toilets). In a "normal" toilet, the water flushing down into the bowl will be affected by gravity and the design of the toilet itself way more than by the Coreolis effect, therefore leaving it negligible. If I am wrong about that, correct me. I am always ready to learn new things.
@anullhandle4 жыл бұрын
@@bufferbuffer7320 smartereveryday has a video demonstrating the effect and how finicky it is.
@skeeter1971403 жыл бұрын
This is an incredible piece of military hardware. I still don't quite understand why they quit using battleships. I've been on this tour twice. It's really awesome when they simulate launching nukes.
@JM642 жыл бұрын
Giant slow-moving target with minimal stand-off range in a battlefield dominated by long range missiles... Even with a few CIWS a battleship would be easy pickings on the modern battlefield.
@KingdaToro Жыл бұрын
What defines a battleship isn't the guns, it's the armor. For a ship to be considered a battleship, it has to be sufficiently armored to take a hit from any of its own weapons. For guns this is fairly easy, you just need armor that's as thick as the diameter of your largest shells. For missiles, you'd need a lot more, so much that it would be completely impractical. In fact, arming a battleship with missiles technically makes it no longer a battleship, as those missiles would be able to defeat its armor.
@rl26992 жыл бұрын
I visited Mt. Pleasant South Carolina and there is a military museum there. Long story short they have a cruiser and even though at the time they had half of that ship blocked off the entire front half of the ship was open for tour. The front turret had a guided tour and it was somewhat like this, you actually got to go inside the turret structure, see the inside of it and the inner workings of it. The amazing part of it was there was a screen like the tv in this video and the entire time you were standing on a platform and when the "fire" order was given the platform shuttered in an example of how it felt when the turrets would shoot.
@norcalsrt12145 жыл бұрын
The old technology was sometimes far better, in war the simpler the solution the better
@norcalsrt12144 жыл бұрын
@Mike Schnobrich it's very simple almost child like in comparison to today's equipment
@Idahoguy101575 жыл бұрын
Target motion analysis and obtaining a firing solution. Forty years ago I had to study the formula that the mechanical computer works out. For a promotion exam.
@thejerseyj94224 жыл бұрын
@Travis Thacker very cool
@poly_hexamethyl Жыл бұрын
What is it actually computing? Something involving trigonometry and possibly calculus (integration/differentiation)?
@Madmiata79 Жыл бұрын
This battleship is art. I love it so much
@poly_hexamethyl Жыл бұрын
There's definitely something to be said for the reliability of mechanical computers, especially when they have hand-crank backup! It truly shocked me when I read somewhere that modern warships rely on PCs running the Windows operating system for critical functions.
@Unmannedair5 жыл бұрын
the Coriolis affecting toilet water flushing is a total myth. it does affect projectile paths, but the direction a toilet flushes is a function of design, not spin direction.
@CousinBowling5 жыл бұрын
I think he knows that but that's the example he used so the crowd would get it.
@Unmannedair5 жыл бұрын
@@CousinBowling my complaint is that he is perpetuating the spread of misinformation so that they can 'get it'. and incidentally by causation when they do get it they get the wrong 'it'. this is the thing that drives me nuts about the public education system. most of the crap kids learn in school isn't even close to accurate. they teach to approximations and memorizations. stupidity isn't something you're born with it is something that is taught... I'm saying we need to stop teaching stupidity.
@CousinBowling5 жыл бұрын
@@Unmannedair fair point
@omnipersistence5 жыл бұрын
@@Unmannedair They're learning about a ww2 firing computer, not toilets. If he were teaching about how toilets worked to UT's or whatnot, that information would be misleading as hell. But the use of it as an example here is so he doesn't go into a full blown lecture on the Coriolis effect, which in essence would end up wasting time and potentially end up with none of them understanding.
@doas63115 жыл бұрын
@@Unmannedair uh how did you get a simple example a lot of people may know which is half the definition of a myth and put it with the public education system? Myths are myths and will spread
@sumdumguy26485 жыл бұрын
RIP Jason.
@ryanhampson6732 жыл бұрын
I went on the USS Alabama but didnt do the tour. So I was walking around the ship by myself and stumbled into the control room and saw the analog computer for the first time and just spend like 20 mins just amazed that they had all that back then.
@jamesmurphy14803 жыл бұрын
It's amazing how something built so long ago still could be used in a battle to this day and matter of fact was used in the Persian gulf during the gulf war
@ilsunnylo35626 жыл бұрын
I thought it be some dude with a keyboard and mouse staring at a lcd screaming "get rekt 360 no scope!" Like in bf1
@jamesholcombe4355 жыл бұрын
Omfg lol your amazing. That was funny as well
@trashedsti78693 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the tour guide in the minute man missile silo
@TexasBarnRats3 жыл бұрын
In 1986, the US Coast Guard cutter Ingham (WWII vintage) was participating in REFTRA (Refresher Training) gunnery exercises along side some modern navy vessels. There was a simulated power outage and on the INGHAM we were still able to fire our 5"/38 guns when the Navy vessels could not. When all was said and done, we eeked-out a slightly higher score than the modern naval vessels!
@cojones851811 ай бұрын
That computer is a wonder in itself. Everything was done with shafts, rollers, cogs, and cams. There's a youtube video about it that worth a watch.
@jayjay2695 жыл бұрын
Ah, the myth of your water going (counter)clockwise in northern and Southern Hemispheres.
@btankful5 жыл бұрын
Hurricanes do. It's just that the Coriolis effect is maybe a ten millionth of gravity. So, it shows up in large weather systems. Toilets rotate the way the water is jetted into it. If you had a perfect basin and perfectly still water, it would rotate the same as hurricanes. The effect, though, is minimal for a few pounds of water. The showman in Kenya who step back and forth over the equator and have the water switch rotation direction are fakes and manipulate the angle the water is introduced into the bowl.
@tedrobinson57437 жыл бұрын
1st THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE! I come from a GO NAVY! Family. I made A few components for your refit I.E. important parts for your OH Shitt! Gatling guns.my fam member. Served on her in NAM & I got to go aboard for the family tour. AWESOME Vessel Thank You sir for the tour.
@kevinyoung90533 жыл бұрын
The Navies often refer to their big guns as Naval rifles not cannons and these Riflrs are 16 inch 50 calber as opposed to the 16 inch 45 Caliber guns used in South Dakota class Iowa class ships had slightly longer range slightly higher velocity shells from the extra 80 inch longer barrels and it's not 20mm and larger called cannons, its whether or not the normal projectile is explosive or solid bullet. German MG131s used in ww2 aircraft were 13mm cannons. US M2 .50 caliber(12.7mm) is a MG because projectiles are not explosive
@peterson70822 жыл бұрын
the 13mm MG _131_ was a machine gun regardless of munition.
@davids11131113 Жыл бұрын
I was a Gunners Mate on the 16” turrets on the USS New Jersey they were amazing technology for their time even today they’d still work.
@edwinnolasco53835 жыл бұрын
I didn’t know Tom Segura was doing tours on navy ships now 😂😂
@davidknowles24915 жыл бұрын
Looks a bit like Jack Patillo from Achievement Hunter.
@mqbitsko255 жыл бұрын
Ah, the old "toilet water" myth. Will that thing never die?
@CousinBowling5 жыл бұрын
No
@disgruntledgrunt42593 жыл бұрын
Most people don't understand that toilet manufacturers determine the way water flows in a toilet by the way they place the "jet" let alone the Coriolis effect.
@OrbDaPlug4 жыл бұрын
I love how when people are showing you how things work they like to have fun with it while still teaching you how it works
@redalertsteve_5 жыл бұрын
What a beautiful ship. And yes these are Mark 7 16” 50 cal naval guns. The title will never be wrong.
@WorldEagleKW7 жыл бұрын
"They count to 10"... that's ah... not very dry sense of humor... Good video though.
@SurfingBullDog5 жыл бұрын
Screen shot had me thinking this was a turntable tutorial.
@XboxIssues5 жыл бұрын
Thumbnail*?
@RC-te4mt5 жыл бұрын
A Battleship is an awesome naval vessel I was awe struck with the one I toured in Alabama
@colindavis2166 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in South Jersey, When I was in boy scouts, we stayed overnight on the ship and got to tour the entire ship. This was probably a year before the museum was fully opened to the public. I remember asking to use the bathroom, I was probably 8 or 9. I was told "we don't have bathrooms on the USS New Jersey". I was like "how do you?" "It's called a head"
@og71896 жыл бұрын
.50 vs 50 Know the difference. It is quite extreme.
@peterson70824 жыл бұрын
Its also referring to different things. Caliber for artillery, and caliber for small arms.
@KizaruB3 жыл бұрын
This video was brought to you by Uncle Sam
@MJLeger-tz4so4 жыл бұрын
The narrator makes it very real and interesting! That 50 cal gun is some serious firepower! We certainly still have battleships in our duty roster, but from how on, most wars will be fought mostly in the air, with aircraft leaving from aircraft carriers to carry out their missions. But we still have active battleships that can launch deadly missiles if needed.
@MJLeger-tz4so4 жыл бұрын
@Fred Cink Wrong! Every ship that fights on the ocean in war is a battleship! Some that sail the seas are called destroyers with many classes and types, frigates of many classes, corvettes, patrol boats, submarines, even stealth ships, and many support ships above and below the waterline! We have aircraft carriers of many classes, cruisers, battle cruisers, missile cruisers, etc., destroyers of many types and classes.off-shore patrol vessels; other countries have these vessels also. Our military seamen are always watching the sea lanes and they must be able to identify many vessels, and not just by the flag they fly! It's a big job! The U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and Marine ships are decommissioned over the years and are then scrapped, saved for parts or scuttled at the end of their useful lives.
@peterson70824 жыл бұрын
@@MJLeger-tz4so > *_"Every ship that fights on the ocean in war is a battleship! "_* That would be better describing the term "warship" or more specifically "surface combatant." Battleships are a type of warship. The _Iowas_ have been decommissioned since 1991/ 1992. Both _New Jersey_ and _Missouri_ were struck off in the nineties. Soon followed by the _Iowa_ and _Wisconsin_ in 2006 when they too were struck from the Naval Register. And then in 2011 and 2010 respectively the Congressional order for possible reinstatement of _Iowa__ and _Wisconsin_ into the Naval Register and eligibility for recommissioning expired.
@nicklackey65952 жыл бұрын
99.9% sure I'll die of old age not needing that information. But on the other hand that was fantastic!!! Let's do it again!
@freakyflow7 жыл бұрын
I'm not a big Navy buff ..I love WW2 planes But to understand Airpower you have to understand sea power as many battles were from flight decks. Watching .. I fell in love with The Big "E" And the Cleveland class ships along with the New Jersey and the Japanese BB/CV. ISE I been to the Philppines seen Leyte Gulf The guns of Manila @ intramoros and Rizal park where the famous last stand of the Japanese took in a dug out on a baseball field My next History trip will take me to Buffalo N.Y. to see the USS Little Rock The last Cleveland class cruiser afloat She never seen WW2 and sadly the only ship she ever hit was the USS Missouri with a misfired 5 inch star shell killing a crew member
@victorh.truman39545 жыл бұрын
16x50=800,divides by 12=66.6’ long,The guns are that long.
@PKPK-rr3rs5 жыл бұрын
2:15 I know a firearm enthusiast when I see one. Good trigger discipline. 👍🏻👀
@josephpicogna63483 жыл бұрын
Done that and it was spectacular. Wanted to include a picture but you don’t allow that. Thanks for another great program.
@sfcretired11665 жыл бұрын
I went round and round with a civilian editor about the designation of naval guns. She argued that a particular gun could be either 5" or 30 caliber, but couldn't be both. Took me forever to make this well-educated idiot understand that 5" was the bore and 30 calibers was the length of the barrel. Only reason this old doggie knew was my half-brother was a Chief Gunner's Mate (Guns)
@asheshinfinite37664 жыл бұрын
They're being shot at and the lady is busy on Facebook! Typical!😅
@BrokenLifeCycle11 ай бұрын
"They sank a fucking island. I didn't even know that was an option!"
@Benji1969 Жыл бұрын
I did a detailed tour of the USS Lexington (CV16) and it was awesome. I got to see the boilers, more of the engine room, secondary conn, pilots briefing room, etc. Im am going to be touring USS Iowa this summer and am bummed I dont have enough time to do the turret crawl.
@buckclary30575 жыл бұрын
No that toilet shit is a lie,they are just molded differently with the water opening on the other side
@gabrielpeixotoooo5 жыл бұрын
lol
@adamorick28727 жыл бұрын
Toilet flushes same no matter where you are, direction is based on individual toilet design. Someone talking up thier tech using toilet exMple should know that
@HarryL20207 жыл бұрын
Adam Orick exactly what I was thinking, it's scary people like that train gunners...
@Mobius_12186 жыл бұрын
If the toilet was big enough there would be a difference
@adamorick28726 жыл бұрын
1218 no thier wouldn't. Toilets flush based on the direction of the holes built in the porcelain. Naturally if it were to have straight holes instead of angled it wouldn't swirl
@duncanmcgee136 жыл бұрын
Adam Orick the Coriolis effect is still in play when firing over large distances
@adamorick28726 жыл бұрын
Duncan McGee this isn't about firing, this is about shitter water swirls
@edselparsons7213 жыл бұрын
Used to fire the New Jersey on targets we picked up on our ground surveillance radar at Gio Linh .