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Comparison of 5-Inch and 4.5-Inch Rockets [14] [15] 5" HVAR Rocket 4.5" M8 Type Rocket Total weight 140 pounds (64 kg) 40 pounds Maximum velocity: 1,300 feet per second (400 m/s) 865 feet per second Weight of high explosive: 7.8 pounds: 5.1 pounds (M8A3), 4.3 pounds (T22) Maximum accurate range: 1,000 yards: 800 yards Approximate penetration of ...
The Ordnance QF 4.5-inch howitzer was the standard British Empire field (or "light") howitzer of the First World War era. It replaced the BL 5-inch howitzer and equipped some 25% of the field artillery. It entered service in 1910 and remained in service through the interwar period and was last used in the field by British forces in early 1942.
A new type of 4.5 inch gun with a longer 55-calibre barrel, it was designed in the 1960s for the Royal Navy's new classes of frigates and destroyers.The weapon, built by Vickers Ltd Armament Division, was developed by the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment using the Ordnance, QF 105 mm L13 of the Abbot self-propelled gun as a starting point (it used electrical primers).
From the BL Mark I gun of 1916 the 4.7-inch (120 mm) calibre was the mid-calibre weapon of the Royal Navy, used particularly on destroyers.Apart from some ships armed with QF 4-inch Mk V guns due to shortages, it remained the standard weapon for destroyers up to the W-class destroyers of 1943.
[5] 4.7-inch gun M1922E on carriage M1921E [2] of a similar design and same ballistics, but with 45-degree maximal elevation and lighter, just 10,600 pounds (4,800 kg). 4.7-inch gun T3 (1940). [2] 4.5-inch gun M1 on carriage M1 (1941). [1] The weapon was experimentally mounted on a lengthened chassis of the M5 light tank, in mount M1. The ...
The BL 4.5 inch medium gun was a British gun used by field artillery in the Second World War for counter-battery fire. Developed as a replacement for the BL 60-pounder gun it used the same carriage as the BL 5.5-inch medium gun but fired a lighter round further. It had nothing in common with the QF 4.5 inch Howitzer or the QF 4.5 inch AA gun.
The 5-inch (127 mm)/54-caliber (Mk 45) lightweight gun is a U.S. naval artillery gun mount consisting of a 5 in (127 mm) L54 Mark 19 gun on the Mark 45 mount. [1] It was designed and built by United Defense , a company later acquired by BAE Systems Land & Armaments , which continued manufacture.
4.5 inch gun may refer to: QF 4.5-inch howitzer, a British Army weapon of the World War I era; QF 4.5-inch Mk I – V naval gun, a British family of naval guns, actually of 4.45 inches (113 mm) calibre, in service 1938 through 2013; 4.5-inch Mark 8 naval gun, a British naval gun in service 1972 through at least 2018