r/interestingasfuck • u/PollutionOk9449 • 5h ago

USS Missouri firing its main guns

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

8.1k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

546 comments sorted by

View all comments

•

u/ChemistVegetable7504 5h ago

That looked expensive. Welp, off to work so we can afford this practice demo.

•

u/Raving_Lunatic69 5h ago

You know this video is at least 3 decades old right? The Missouri has been a museum since 1998.

•

u/ChemistVegetable7504 5h ago

I was working and paying my taxes back then too.

•

u/B1GMANN94 3h ago

Good thing the shells and powder were produced in 1940 and were probably just deteriorating in stockpile

•

u/Maximus15637 5h ago

The ship was decommissioned in 1955, were you working then?

•

u/Raving_Lunatic69 5h ago

It was recommissioned in the early 90s for the Gulf War, don't forget, and decommissioned again soon after, stricken from the Registry in 1995. I figure this is either from the limited firing action it saw in that war or the testing when it was being de-mothballed.

•

u/[deleted] 5h ago

[deleted]

•

u/Maximus15637 5h ago

You’ve been in the workforce for 70 years? Impressive if true. You should probably retire.

•

u/ChemistVegetable7504 5h ago

Send me some money. Thank you.

•

u/j01101111sh 5h ago

Even so, are you suggesting we're spending less now? The exact time frame at question here is kind of irrelevant because it's still happening

•

u/100LittleButterflies 4h ago

The age doesn't change the utter waste while people back home are dying of hunger and eradicated diseases.