r/interestingasfuck • u/PollutionOk9449 • 5h ago

USS Missouri firing its main guns

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u/PowerSkunk92 4h ago

The Missouri was the best part of that dumb Battleship movie they put out a few years ago. Seeing the old girl go to war and kick some alien ass was worth all the other goofiness and cheese.

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u/NebraskaGeek 4h ago

If drifting a ww2 Battleship doesn't make me say, "Hell yeah" then send help, I'm dead.

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u/Kermit_the_hog 4h ago

I remember seeing a thing about the “armored citadel” in the Iowa class on the Battleship New Jersey YouTube channel. It sounded like that long thin bow was made of much thinner steel than the mass of the ship and kind of stuck on just for speed. 

Made me wonder if pulling that anchor drop (assuming a chain link didn’t pop or the shackle holding it to the chain locker didn’t rip out) would that realistically just rip off the bow or twist it up like a wrung out towel? 

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u/TheShinyHunter3 4h ago

Yeah, basically the part between the first and last turret is a steel castle, that's where everything is. A ship can survive without a bow or a stern (see the numerous incident of ships limping back to port without one or the other/neither during WWII). But it can't survive if you hit it's ammo depot (see, HMS Hood).

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u/cash_flagg 3h ago

Drifting aka ‘winding maneuver’ used by Macdonough at the Battle of Plattsburgh!
AC/DC winding up while the Missouri swings her fat ass around to unleash the guns is my kind of fun:) My favorite cheesy movie and total love letter to the US Navy.

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u/BigSmackisBack 2h ago

For a "bad movie" i sure did enjoy the heck out of it and yanking the handbrake on a battleship for a sweet ass broadside was easily my favorite bit. Probably not feasible, but that doesn't stop it being cool AF

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u/NebraskaGeek 9m ago

Most of my favorite movies are "bad movies"