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The 6-inch/47-caliber gun was one of several weapons developed by the United States Navy in the 1930s to fire "super-heavy" armor-piercing (AP) projectiles, thus increasing warships' destructive power while complying with the limits on number of guns and ship size by the London Naval Treaty. Compared with the preceding 6-inch/53-caliber gun ...
Seven of the railway guns, six 28 cm (11 in) K5 guns and a single 21 cm (8.3 in) K12 gun with a range of 115 km (71 mi), could only be used against land targets. The remainder, thirteen 28 cm (11 in) guns and five 24 cm (9.4 in) guns, plus additional motorised batteries comprising twelve 24 cm (9.4 in) guns and ten 21 cm (8.3 in) guns, could be ...
The BL 6-inch gun Mark VII (and the related Mk VIII) [h] was a British naval gun dating from 1899, which was mounted on a heavy travelling carriage in 1915 for British Army service to become one of the main heavy field guns in the First World War, and also served as one of the main coast defence guns throughout the British Empire until the 1950s.
Krupp A.G., produced a 9 cm (6-Pfünder-Feldkanone C/61) rifled breechloader of cast steel with a "piston" breech-lock designed by Martin von Wahrendorff, which gave such good results that Prussia adopted steel for making army guns, which made Prussia the first country to do so. Initially during the 1850s, Krupp developed a breechloading system ...
Maximum firing range. 19,660 metres (21,500 yd) [7] The BL 6-inch Mark XII naval gun[8] was a British 45 calibre naval gun which was mounted as primary armament on light cruisers and secondary armament on dreadnought battleships commissioned in the period 1914–1926, and remained in service on many warships until the end of World War II.
A C-clamp or G-clamp or G-cramp is a type of clamp device typically used to hold a wood or metal workpiece, and often used in, but are not limited to, carpentry and welding. . Often believed that these clamps are called "C" clamps because of their C-shaped frame, or also often called C-clamps or G-clamps [1] because including the screw part, they are shaped like an uppercase lette
The 38 cm SK C/34[Note 1] naval gun was developed by Germany mid to late 1930s. It armed the Bismarck -class battleships and was planned as the armament of the O-class battlecruisers and the re-armed Scharnhorst -class battleships. Six twin-gun mountings were also sold to the Soviet Union and it was planned to use them on the Kronshtadt -class ...
The gun was an improved version of the 1901 BL 10-pounder mountain gun. The new 1911 version improved on the 1901 gun with a new pole trail, recoil buffer, recuperator and gun shield, and increased shell weight from 10 to 12.5 lb (5.7 kg). It was a screw gun design, where the barrel could be separated into two parts via a screw joint.