Archive image from page 152 of Dahlgren (1977). Dahlgren dahlgren00mcco Year: 1977 Naval 143 MARK 71 8-inch lightweight gun firing USS HULL. Guns versus missiles must have caused a great deal of controversy in. Navy policymaking at one time. Can you identify any changes in naval warfare tactics that resulted from this issue? The controversy didn't come until the guided projectile began to challenge the missile because there was no controversy when the missile took over from guns; that wasn't controversial at all. The gunners just simply went away and crawled in their holes. T
Archive image from page 152 of Dahlgren (1977). Dahlgren dahlgren00mcco Year: 1977 Naval 143 MARK 71 8-inch lightweight gun firing USS HULL. Guns versus missiles must have caused a great deal of controversy in. Navy policymaking at one time. Can you identify any changes in naval warfare tactics that resulted from this issue? The controversy didn't come until the guided projectile began to challenge the missile because there was no controversy when the missile took over from guns; that wasn't controversial at all. The gunners just simply went away and crawled in their holes. The tactical change that was brought about by the of missiles was the change from an offensive to a defensive Navy. That's when we began to be defensive in nature, and it almost completely inundated the Navy. We lost almost any capability to conduct offensive strike warfare. Can you tell us how the guided projectile concept was conceived and relate some of the initial work in this area? As I rather implied before, the guided projectile really led to the reawaken- ing of naval gunnery and was the leading effort in this Station's thrust into weapons systems development. The concept, as we know it today, is vastly different from the Angled Arrow concept so that you can call it a different development entirely. The present concept was born here at Dahlgren in about 1967. It happened right down in Building 198, the old Machine Gun Battery. In those days, that's where the Armament Officer resided, and the Chief Engineer for the Armament Division had his office there with the Division Head in that building. Jim Kirschke was the Armament Officer, and David Sloan was the Chief Engineer.
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