USS Iowa (BB-61) fires a full broadside of her nine 16″/50 and six 5″/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico. Note concussion effects on the water surface, and 16-inch gun barrels in varying degrees of recoil. 1984

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