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105 mm (4.1 in) Bofors 10,5 cm naval anti air gun L/50 Sweden: Interwar - Cold War 113 mm (4.4 in) QF 4.5 inch Mk I - V naval gun 45-caliber United Kingdom: World War II - Cold War 113 mm (4.4 in) 4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun 55-caliber United Kingdom: Cold War - Modern 120 mm (4.7 in) 12 cm/12 short naval gun Japan: World War II
28,400 yards (26,000 m) [1] The Bofors 152 mm kanon m/42 is a naval gun for use on ships. It was initially used aboard light cruisers and cruisers including the Swedish Tre Kronor class and the Dutch De Zeven Provinciën class , after World War II .
The 18"/48 caliber Mark 1 – United States Naval Gun was the initial name and design for a large caliber naval gun in the early 1920s. After the Washington Naval Treaty prohibited the development of guns larger than 16 in (406 mm), the gun was relined and finished as a high velocity 16"/56 Mark 4 gun.
2 List of naval guns by ... List of the largest cannon by caliber ... External links. NAVWEAPS – Naval weapons of the world, 1880 to today (retrieved 2010-02 ...
BL 18 inch Mk I naval gun: Naval gun: 1916 United Kingdom: Elswick Ordnance Company: 3 made; used in combat; the largest ever ship-installed gun by shell weight; none survives 457 18"/47 caliber Mark A gun: Naval gun (experimental; never installed to a ship) 1942 United States [note 1] 450 100-ton gun (RML 17.72 inch gun) Naval gun: 1877 United ...
The BL 18-inch Mk I naval gun was a breech-loading naval rifle used by the Royal Navy during World War I. It was the largest and heaviest gun ever used by the British. [1] Only the Second-World-War Japanese 46 cm/45 Type 94 had a larger calibre, 18.1 inches (46 cm), but it fired a lighter shell. The gun was a scaled-up version of the BL 15 inch ...
12.7 cm/40 Type 89 naval gun - gun used on almost all Japanese ships cruiser size and larger, Matsu and Tachibana-class escorts. 12 cm/45 10th Year Type naval gun Anti-aircraft gun used in older carriers and some cruisers.
Each D839 propellant (smokeless powder) grain used for full charges for this gun was 2 in (51 mm) long, 1 in (25 mm) in diameter and had seven perforations, each 0.060 in (1.5 mm) in diameter with a web thickness range of 0.193 to 0.197 in (4.9 to 5.0 mm) between the perforations and the grain diameter. A maximum charge consisted of six silk ...