Anonymous ID: 2c3d9a July 9, 2024, 12:07 p.m. No.21168199   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>8280 >>8586 >>8658 >>8744 >>8797

#OTD in 1940, HMS Warspite scored one of the longest range gunnery hits from a moving ship to a moving target in history. During the Battle of Calabria, a 15-inch projectile from Warspite hit the Italian battleship Giulio Cesare from a distance of almost 15 miles.

 

https://x.com/NavalInstitute/status/1810748872425402788

Anonymous ID: 2c3d9a July 9, 2024, 12:08 p.m. No.21168211   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>8280 >>8586 >>8744 >>8797

Tech Tuesday ๐Ÿ’ก: Hexagon provided remarkable capabilities for the time, but there were some initial concerns whether it could even be built.

 

Listen as Gen. Lew Allen Jr., former

@USAF

Chief of Staff & Assistant to the Director of Special Projects, explains.

 

https://x.com/NatReconOfc/status/1810748054548426999