Olaf skrevade:
> I would not be too surprised if that is really true. A thing I have heard,
> but of which I've always wondered whether it is true or not, is that the
> recoil of firing the big guns of a battleship like the USS Missouri causes
> the whole ship (!) to move about 1m of distance in the opposite direction
as
> to the one in which the shot was fired (which I think typically is
> sideways). Now, such a battleship will have, to say the least, a
> "considerable weight and size", so the water displacement caused by this
> must be enormous, and I'm not sure even guns as big as the ones used on
> these ships can pull that off. This is why I always wondered if this was
> true or not. Does anyone know for sure?
http://www.warships1.com/W-Tech/tech-022.htm <- try this
Arni
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