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In World War I 45-caliber naval gun barrels were typical, in World War II 50- to 55-caliber barrels were common, with Germany already manufacturing tank guns of 70 calibers by 1943. Today, 60- to 70-caliber barrels are not uncommon, but the latest technology has allowed shorter barrels of 55 calibers to attain muzzle velocities of 1,750 m/s ...
Adolf Gun, a Nazi German cross-channel firing gun. The formal definition of large-calibre artillery used by the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA) is "guns, howitzers, artillery pieces, combining the characteristics of a gun, howitzer, mortar, or rocket, capable of engaging surface targets by delivering primarily indirect fire, with a calibre of 76.2 mm (3.00 in) and above". [1]
Note that each category will include weapons that are in that general size class. Weapons of similar caliber may differ in exact caliber (i.e. 76 mm and 76.2 mm will both be under 76 mm artillery). Non metric calibers are placed within the nearest calculated metric category.
By Soviet definition, a 152 mm howitzer is "medium"-caliber artillery. It was designated a "gun-howitzer" because its muzzle velocity exceeded 600 m/s, and its barrel length exceeded 30 calibers. It equipped battalions in the motor rifle division artillery regiment and army level artillery brigades.
Name/Designation Origin Description 1.1"/75 caliber gun United States 28 mm anti-aircraft gun 1.59-inch breech-loading Vickers Q.F. gun, Mk II (commonly called "Vickers-Crayford rocket gun")
This list of artillery catalogues types of weapons found in batteries of national armed forces' artillery units.. Some weapons used by the infantry units, known as infantry support weapons, are often misidentified as artillery weapons because of their use and performance characteristics, sometimes known colloquially as the "infantryman's artillery" [1] which has been particularly applied to ...
Actually, the 3.8-inch artillery piece was manufactured with three different types of rifling, and more than one metal and profile. [1] Because many of the U.S. Army's existing 3.67 inch caliber 6-pounders had worn-out bores, it was found that re-boring the guns to 3.8 inch caliber would make them a uniform size.
Gerald Vincent Bull (March 9, 1928 – March 22, 1990 [1]) was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery.He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq.