Picture of the Week 24

A remarkable, but surprisingly not uncommon, photograph which captures a pair of 16 inch shells in flight.  These are 1,900 pound (862 kg) High Capacity rounds which are traveling at approximately 2,650 feet per second (810 m/s), or Mach 2.4.  The ship is the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62), operating off Vietnam in October 1968.