To: navyblue
I'm thinkin that one 3 inch round could have made that chase a lot shorter. Nothing smaller than a five inch in use on those frigates these days.
37 posted on
09/15/2006 11:57:16 AM PDT by
GingisK
To: GingisK
"I'm thinkin that one 3 inch round could have made that chase a lot shorter."
"Nothing smaller than a five inch in use on those frigates these days."
Groves is a FFG-7 (Oliver Hazard Perry) class frigate. She is armed with one 3 inch (76mm) gun. Small but very fast and deadly.
54 posted on
09/15/2006 12:33:14 PM PDT by
ryan71
To: GingisK
Nothing smaller than a five inch in use on those frigates these days. Dating myself, huh? Well, works for me. I didn't mind those 5" or the 40mm stuff going off near me, but those 3 inch things had an awful"crack" when they went off.
65 posted on
09/15/2006 1:10:34 PM PDT by
navyblue
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