Re: 18.1" Anti-Aircraft Guns!!!

ScottSaylo@aol.com wrote:
> 
> The problem with firing big "shotgun" rounds of burning material
through the
> bore is that it would scour away the rifling pretty fast. Rifled guns
fired
> only explosive and shrapnel rounds never cannister.

     You need to go back to Viet Nam for accounts of the 105s firing 
'beehive' (modern canister) rounds before much more is said.

Bye for now,
John L.