Heavy Metal

[67newport]

USS Tennessee (BB-43) in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, 17 July 1945.

 

[67newport]

BB-64 USS Wisconsin

 

[67newport]

IJN Mutsu, the last senkan made before the Yamto class, at Yokosuka, 1937

 

[67newport]

Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen as USS Prinz Eugen, before the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll

 

[67newport]

Bows on view of the USS Arizona (BB-39)

 

[67newport]

Cruiser killer Guam as seen off Philadelphia Naval Shipyard

 

[67newport]

USS Houston (CA-30) passing through the Panama Canal, 1930's

 

[67newport]

June 1946, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. American target ship Nagato is getting prepared for the nuclear weapon test Able which she will manage to survive with minor volume of damage.

 

[barnfind]

IDRA Gigapress

 

[amazinblue82]

IDRA Gigapress

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hat's off to Tesla --- wanna beat incumbents, well you out-innovate them, design AND manufacturing.

Giga Press - Wikipedia

but ... JP Morgan Analysis below, and the potential "rub" in "The Maths" section

source: JP Morgan admits Tesla’s Giga Press advantage, but posts strangely low output estimate

 

[Snotty]

Admiral Hipper class heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen as USS Prinz Eugen, before the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll
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Perhaps the single greatest ship ever built! And we torpedoed it to the bottom after the explosion.

 

[67newport]

USS Wisconsin is ushered into her berth at the Nauticus in Norfolk.

 

[67newport]

USS Wisconsin (BB-64) just after launching, Dec 7, 1943.

 

[67newport]

USS Wyoming (BB-32/AG-17) after conversion to an AA-training ship, underway in the Atlantic, April 30, 1945. Note the lack of a cage for-mast, removed as apart of her conversion to an AA-ship, to make space for more modern range finding equipment

 

[67newport]

USS Wyoming (BB-32/AG-17) with her final 12” main guns removed, replaced by 5/38 twin gun mounts. 18 April 1944

 

[Snotty]

USS Wisconsin (BB-64) just after launching, Dec 7, 1943.
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Interesting how the 5" guns are all installed, but the 16s are yet to be.

 

[Moseman]

Bows on view of the USS Arizona (BB-39)
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Did Arleigh Burke sign this photo?

 

[67newport]

Two Ospreys constructed their nest upon battleship Wisconsin’s TACAN antenna, April 2021. Norfolk.

 

[67newport]

USS Idaho (BB-42) leads USS Texas (BB-35) during training off the California coast, circa 1930

 

[67newport]

German light cruiser Emden in European waters, circa 1937