File:USS Iowa firing main gun.jpg

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USS IOWA fires her main gun

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English: A round is fired from the No. 3 Mark 7 16-inch/50 caliber gun turret during gunnery exercises aboard the battleship USS IOWA (BB 61). The barrel is elevated to the 03 level to test the effects of 16-inch gun overpressure on the Tomahawk armored box launcher located on that level.
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Author Department of Defense

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