Mercedes w163 ML.  Get a 2003-2005 version, and these are 300k mile cars.  They do need maintenance, but take care of them and they are more solid than their reputation suggests.  Beat on it and never maintain it, not so much...

You’d be surprised. The 5" guns were actually worse for your hearing due to the “crack”. The 16's are not that much louder, but they sound “big” and you feel them as much as hear them. From you 03 deck and bridge area, you can really feel it. :)

They actually did have a plan to use 13" sabot rounds with small targeting radar in the nose of the shell. It was claimed this would give a 100+ mile range and accuracy comparable with any modern smart weapon. There was a warrant officer on the ship who was allegedly a physics professor who came out of retirement just…

Couple of notes. The island mentioned in which the Iraqis surrendered to our RPV was Failaka Island. This occurred after the primary ground offensive completed and was considered a “mop-up” operation. I can’t speak for what the Mo saw, and I was not aware of any shells that had been fired at the island, but when our…

Yeah, but the deck crew hated holy-stoning it. :)