“I graduated from West Point, and we have reunions every five years; three hundred to four hundred men come back for them. Now, there are several famous men in my class—the dean of the University of Pittsburgh, the Governor of Missouri, the foremost expert on food radiation. So we tal...
The four Iowa-class battleships were the only ships ever to get the Mark 48. For the rest of the fleet, the switch to digital fire control systems started in the mid-1970s, as ship designs moved toward being lighter and more focused on hunting submarines and aircraft than on sh...