“They have 300mm guns? I guess they will be doing some long range raiding?”
Let’s see, 25mm into 300mm = 12 inches. Does the US Military even have artillery this large anymore? I’m sure there’s an old “Cannon Cocker” somewhere out there who will know :)
The biggest I saw was the M110 8” but I thought we got rid of those a long time ago.
Nope. We had a few cruisers in WWII with 12-inch guns. The last one was the Mk 8. From the Wiki article:
The Mark 8 weighed 121,856 pounds (55,273 kg) including the breech and was capable of an average rate of fire of 2.4 - 3 rounds a minute. It could throw a 1,140 lb. (517.093 kg) Mark 18 armor piercing shell 38,573 yards (35,271 meters) at an elevation of 45 degrees
I use mine to hold up liquor stores. No, not rob them, hold them up. ;-)