It's nice to see when they do something well at YPG!
Back in the late 1990's when I worked at YPG, they used to tell stories about an old 16-inch deck gun that had been relocated to the KOFA range (east of Hwy 95). The KOFA range is normally used for over-pressure testing of artillery rounds. The Army built a fixed placement for the old deck gun. They also had a spare barrel for it. One of the engineers there, at the time, got the brilliant idea to extend the barrel length by precision welding two barrels together. One of the test teams at YPG then tried test firing a projectile out of it. Apparently, as the story goes, they didn't accurately estimate the range of the newly modified weapon. The projectile ended up landing just outside of Gila Bend.
Some days I truly miss the silliness that was Yuma Proving Ground.
Topic: Long Shot (Read 402 times)
