[Milsurplus] LR frequency meter and "Couldn't shock mounts be designed to mitigate those problems?"

[Bruce Gentry]

I have heard that a full salvo could shove the entire ship a few feet. 
The radios are one issue, I am amazed the targeting "computers" could 
stand it and be quickly used to calaculate the next firing.

         Bruce Gentry


On 11/4/15 2:44 PM, Rob Flory wrote:
> I'm not sure anyone who has not lived through it can imagine the shock of
> firing the 16-inch main battery of a WWII battleship.  I know I can't.
>
> I have been on deck for the ceremonial firing of a 5" gun with a token
> charge. It shook every bone in my body.  The charge of a 16" gun fired in
> anger is three orders of magnitude larger.  I think most of those shock
> mounts bottomed out(and topped out) repeatedly with every firing.
>
> The only reason a TBY might fare better is by being cradled by 150lb of
> human flesh.  The one I had stopped working if you looked at it crosseyed.
>
> RF
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