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A Mk 5 Mod 0 US Navy Stadimeter made in 1942 by Schick Inc. of Stamford CT. The hand held stadimeter was developed by Bradley Allen Fiske (1854–1942), an officer in the United States Navy. It was designed for gunnery purposes, but its first sea tests, conducted in 1895, showed that it was equally useful for fleet sailing and for navigation.
Mark 38 25 mm machine gun system. USS Gonzalez fires her starboard-side Mk 38 Mod 2. The Mark 38 25 mm machine gun system (MGS) is a shipboard weapon system designed to protect warships primarily from a variety of surface threats, especially small, fast surface craft. [1] It consists of an M242 Bushmaster chain gun mounted on a turret that can ...
The AGM-45A used the Rocketdyne Mk 39 Mod 0 (or apparently in some cases the Aerojet Mk 53 Mod 1) motor, while the AGM-45B used Aerojet Mk 78 Mod 0 which greatly increased the range of the missile. As for warheads, the Mk 5 Mod 0, Mk 86 Mod 0, and WAU-8/B could all be fitted to the AGM-45A and were all blast-fragmentation in nature.
Pulsewidth. 0.3 μs. Range. 23 km (12.42 nmi) Precision. 14 m (15 yd) Power. 25-50 kW. Mark 63 Gun Fire Control System (Mk.63 GFCS) is a gun fire-control system made up of AN/SPG-34 radar tracker and the Mark 29 gun sight. [1][2] They were usually equipped for the control of twin QF 4-inch naval gun Mk XVI and Mk.33 twin 3"/50 cal guns.
The Mark 34 Gun Weapon System (GWS) is a component of the Aegis Combat System that is responsible for controlling and providing fire control to the 5" Mark 45 gun. It is used on the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke -class destroyer and several later Ticonderoga -class cruisers. The Mk 34 GWS receives target data from the ship's sensors and off-ship ...
Penguin (missile) A U.S. Navy SH-60B Seahawk helicopter fires an AGM-119 missile off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, in July 2002. The Penguin anti-ship missile, designated AGM-119 by the U.S. military, is a Norwegian passive IR seeker -based short-to-medium range anti-ship guided missile, designed for naval use.
Mark 35 torpedo. The Mark 35 torpedo was the first of the United States Navy deep-diving anti-submarine torpedoes designed for surface launch. [ 2 ] This electrically propelled 21-inch (53-cm) torpedo was 162 inches (4.11 m) long, weighed 1770 lb (803 kg), and carried a 270 lb (122.5 kg) Torpex high explosive warhead. [ 3 ] This torpedo used ...
Description. Mk 1. Twin Arm Terrier Launcher on USS Mississippi for initial Terrier testing. Mk 4. Early Twin-arm launcher for the RIM-2 Terrier. Fit only to the Boston -class guided missile cruisers. Vertically loading design distinguished this launcher from the horizontally loading Mk 9 and Mk 10. Mk 5. Twin-arm launcher for the Terrier ...