[jpsb]

What's the big deal? The 16 inch AP round on a Iowa class Battleship could penetrate 160 feet. Maybe we should build some big guns again?

[reg45]

RE: 16in naval artillery

The problem is range. What if the target is far from the water?

[Vinnie]

I believe they are using old gun barrels for the casings on some of these penetrators.

[Hulka]

MOP is capable of penetrating much deeper than stated, and it has fuzing that ensures it goes off at the right time, through some very reinforced WMD bunkers.

http://www.saffm.hq.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-090511-083.pdf

Starting on page 179 are the MOP budgeting documents.

All four committees of the congress have signed off on this budget amount.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

“What’s the big deal? The 16 inch AP round on a Iowa class Battleship could penetrate 160 feet. Maybe we should build some big guns again?
“

Maybe we shouldn’t have moth-balled our battleships aster having spent hundreds of millions of dollars on modernizing them.

And our F-117s.

And our Blackbird.

And our F-22s.

The list goes on and on.......