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The Mark 3 was a 48.9 calibers built-up gun designed and built in the United Kingdom for use in the two New Orleans-class protected cruisers that the US Navy had purchased from the United Kingdom before the Spanish–American War. They were based on the British 4.7-inch Gun Mark IV, but a non-standard export model, the standard Mark IV was 40 ...
This led to the development of the 10-inch/40 caliber gun. [1] The Mark 3 was specifically designed for the Tennessee-class armored cruisers, numbered in order after the Mark 1 and Mark 2s, Nos. 27–47, with No. 27 being delivered in February 1906. Nos. 27–31, 36, and 45 were all Mod 0s, with Nos. 37–44, 46, and 47 being Mod 1s.
5"/54 caliber Mark 16 gun United States: Cold War - Korean War: 127 mm (5.0 in) 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun United States: Cold War 127 mm (5.0 in) 5"/54 caliber Mark 45 gun United States: Cold War - Modern 127 mm (5.0 in) 5"/62 caliber Mark 45 gun United States: Modern 127 mm (5.0 in) 12.7 cm/50 Type 3 naval gun Japan: 1928 - World War II
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The Mark 3 Experimental was a 30 caliber gun that used trunnions and had 11 hoops with the outer hoop starting 4 in (100 mm) from the breech and running out to the muzzle. The Mark 3s consisted of gun Nos. 9 – 27, 33 – 37, and 51.
In the earliest days of moviemaking, Annie Oakley's sharpshooting was committed to film. And Hollywood has had a difficult relationship with guns ever since.
Some models of the rifle have a bayonet lug for an experimental shortened version of the bayonet pattern 1907 of the Lee-Enfield Mark III rifle. The Farquhar-Hill was first patented in the UK in 1908 and in the United States in 1909. The key feature was an intermediate 'action' spring which stored recoil energy.
The need to manually reload the weapon contrasts with most handguns, which automatically put a fresh round in the chamber after a shot is fired without having to rack it back by hand.