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The cannon shot (c. 1680), by Willem van de Velde the Younger. The 16th century was an era of transition in naval warfare. Since ancient times, war at sea had been fought much like that on land: with melee weapons and bows and arrows, but on floating wooden platforms rather than battlefields.
37 mm kan M/98 (Finspång 37 mm naval gun L/35 model 1898) Sweden-Norway: 1890s - Cold War 37 mm (1.5 in) 37 mm kan M/98B (Finspång 37 mm naval gun L/39 model 1901) Sweden-Norway: 1900s - Cold War 38.1 mm (1.50 in) 38 mm kan M/84 (Nordenfelt 1½In fast shooting naval gun L/43 model 1884) Sweden-Norway: 1880s - World War I 40 mm (1.6 in)
Naval artillery; References. External links. NAVWEAPS – Naval weapons of the world, 1880 to today (retrieved 2010-02-01) This page was last edited on 26 July ...
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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.
One unique naval gun was the long nine. It was a proportionately longer-barrelled 9-pounder (4.2 in (110 mm)). It was typically mounted as a bow or stern chaser where it was not perpendicular to the keel, and this also allowed room to operate this longer weapon. In a chase situation, the gun's greater range came into play.
Naval rifles, although constructed and manufactured in roughly the same manners as land-based artillery, were built to much more stringent and studious standards than land-based weapons, and for good reason. At sea, a weapon had to perform, without fail. There was no ready replacement, nor one that could be readily supplied.
Naval artillery: Guns mounted on warships to be used either against other naval vessels or to bombard coastal targets in support of ground forces. The crowning achievement of naval artillery was the battleship, but the advent of air power and missiles have rendered this type of artillery largely obsolete. They are typically longer-barreled, low ...