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To: D Rider

I saw the analog computers and command center in the USS Massachusetts and it was amazing. The CIC was underneath a 5” thick Armor deck.


38 posted on 05/02/2009 8:14:05 PM PDT by omega4179 (Boycott government communist tractor factories!)
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To: omega4179

“The last combat action for the analog rangekeepers, at least for the US Navy, was in the 1991 Persian Gulf War[13] when the rangekeepers on the Iowa-class battleships directed their last rounds in combat.”


39 posted on 05/02/2009 8:14:57 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Big Ears + Big Spending --> BigEarMarx, the man behind TOTUS)
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To: omega4179

They were all of the same class. When Reagan sent the New Jersey to Lebanon, I remember it only took one 16” shell to quiet things down.


41 posted on 05/02/2009 8:22:13 PM PDT by D Rider
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