[lapsus calami]

 

 

I think he Admiral Lee, in that one engagement, brought nearly the entire fleet onboard with respect to the advantages of radar-guided naval gunfire.

 

Lee had MK8 radar well calibrated with the guns on his battleships, which could track and fire upon a fast moving target at 32,000+ yards - and straddle it on the first salvo. Just imagine what those battlewagons could do with the latest & greatest modern radar.

 

 

Have you read “Neptune’s Inferno”?

 

I did soon after it came out – it didn’t really tell me anything I didn’t already know – but, it is a well researched work for the uninitiated. Very good book, and I highly recommend it.

 

 

[rlmorel]

I was not there, so it has been difficult for me to grasp the time. I thought the author did a great job of explaining that time frame to the reader.

I did spend time in a navy family, and did a tour at sea myself, but I have to consider myself one of those “uninitiated”, especially since I never had to enter a burning compartment (except for damage control training). I consider myself to be very well informed about these things, but I learned a lot from that book.

It boggled my mind to imagine the carnage. So many lives lost in engagements measured in minutes...the description of the way a salvo from a battleship could be seen at night glowing red, disappearing into the clouds, then reappearing from the clouds downrange in their arc...it really helped me to visualize that.

[rlmorel]

I was out on the water about 20-25 miles north of Boston today, and you could see the city skyline from there.

That was what popped into my mind: “The USS New Jersey could hit that from here!”

It was astonishing to consider.