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Modele 53 100mm Gun; Modele 64 100mm Gun; Modele 68 CADAM 100mm Gun; Modele 100 TR 100mm Gun; MU90 Impact Torpedo; Mk 1 Terrier Missile launcher USS Mississippi; Mk 4 Triple 14"/50 Gun; Mk 4 Terrier Missile launcher; Mk 5 Twin 16"/45 Gun; Mk 5 Terrier Missile launcher; Mk 6 Triple 16"/45 Gun; Mk 7 Triple 16"/50 Gun; Mk 7 Talos Missile launcher ...
Her gun armament under the 1703 Establishment her armament was as 48/42 guns consisting of twenty-two/twenty 18-pounders guns of 8.5 feet in length on the lower deck (LD), twenty 6-pounder guns of 8 feet in length on the upper deck (UD), four 6-pounder guns of 7 feet in length on the quarterdeck (QD) and two 6-pounder guns of 8 feet in length ...
HMS Courageux was a 74-gun third rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 26 March 1800 at Deptford.She was designed by Sir John Henslow as one of the large class 74-gun ships, and was the only ship built to her draught.
She was ordered as a 90-gun first-rate ship of the line, [2] [7] but at launch was armed with 102 bronze guns at the insistence of the king. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] She was later renamed Sovereign under the republican Commonwealth , and then HMS Royal Sovereign at the Restoration of Charles II.
The 14"/50 caliber gun was a naval gun mounted on New Mexico and Tennessee-class battleships. These ships also featured the first "three-gun" turrets, meaning that each gun in each turret could be "individually sleeved" to elevate separately (however, they could be linked so they would elevate as a unit, similar to the triple turrets on other ...
A lightweight gun that needed only a small gun crew and was devastating at short range was a weapon well suited to defending merchant ships against French and American privateers. In the Action of 4 September 1782 , the impact of a single carronade broadside fired at close range by the frigate HMS Rainbow under Henry Trollope caused a wounded ...
Steven Spielberg participated in a master class at the Time 100 Summit and announced he regrets editing guns out of “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.” The film’s 1982 theatrical cut includes a ...
The new ships incorporated compound armor plate, which reduced weight considerably, as did the decision to omit the heavy belt armor the earlier ships had employed. The large gun was reduced significantly in caliber to 21 cm (8.3 in). Two ships of this design were ordered: Brummer and Bremse. They were the first ship of the German Navy to use ...