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POOR RESULTS IN SHELLING LAID TO OLD AMMUNITION
By WAYNE BIDDLE (NYT); National Desk
October 23, 1984, Tuesday
Late City Final Edition, Section A, Page 15, Column 1, 593 words
Old ammunition was partly responsible for poor results in the shelling of Lebanon's coast last year by the battleship New Jersey, according to a Navy expert. Comdr. Richard Gano, chief weapons officer of the New Jersey's recently recommissioned sister ship, the Iowa, said no ammunition for the dreadnought's 16-inch ...
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In the offshore shelling of Syrian antiaircraft positions last December, New Jersey's vintage powder charges produced shell velocities that varied as much as 120 feet-per-second from expected, Commander Gano said, making precise aim nearly impossible. A deviation of only two or three feet-per- second would normally be taken into account, he added. His comments came on a tour of Iowa's weapons as she steamed up the coast from Norfolk, Va., to Manhattan last week.
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