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America’s Powerful Sixteen-Inch Gun

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Oct 10, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 40.

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America’s Powerful Sixteen-Inch Gun

The last big gun built by the United States is a 16-inch rifle, and throws an explosive contact shell weighing 2,400 pounds a distance of 22 miles. One shot would put the greatest Dreadnought in the world out of action. By means of aeroplanes and wireless a half dozen such guns would disable an entire fleet before her masts were visible above the horizon.