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The 14-inch/45-caliber gun, (spoken "fourteen-inch-forty-five-caliber" [citation needed]), whose variations were known initially as the Mark 1, 2, 3, and 5, and, when upgraded in the 1930s, were redesignated as the Mark 8, 9, 10, and 12. They were the first 14-inch (356 mm) guns to be employed by the United States Navy.
The 14-inch Gun M1907 (356 mm) and its variants the M1907MI, M1909, and M1910 were large coastal artillery pieces installed to defend major American seaports between 1895 and 1945. They were operated by the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps .
The Vickers 14-inch 45-calibre gun was designed and built by Vickers and initially installed on the battlecruiser Kongō which it was building for the Imperial Japanese Navy. Guns similar to this Vickers design were also later built in Japan to arm Kongō ' s sister ships and subsequent Japanese-constructed "super-dreadnoughts" which were all ...
A newer version of the 14"/50 caliber gun, Mark B, was designed in 1937. It was the original gun intended for use on the North Carolina-class battleships, in three quadruple turrets. The Mark B was the most powerful 14 inch weapon ever designed by the United States, being simpler and lighter than the older versions.
The new 14-inch Armour Piercing (AP) 1,590-pound/ 721 kg shell had, relative to its size, superior ballistic performance and armour-penetration compared to previous British shells, due to improvements in design and material which had taken place since World War I. [6] The shell also carried a proportionally large bursting charge of 39.8 lb (18. ...
The superbubble Henize 70, also known as N70 or DEM301, in the Large Magellanic Cloud [1]. In astronomy a superbubble or supershell is a cavity which is hundreds of light years across and is populated with hot (10 6 K) gas atoms, less dense than the surrounding interstellar medium, blown against that medium and carved out by multiple supernovae and stellar winds.
350 mm (14 in) Škoda 35 cm K14 Austria-Hungary: World War I 356 mm (14.0 in) EOC 14 inch /45 Marks I and III United Kingdom Chile: World War I - 1950s 356 mm (14.0 in) 36cm/45 41st Year Type United Kingdom Japan: World War I - World War II 356 mm (14.0 in) 14"/45 caliber gun United States: World War I - World War II 356 mm (14.0 in)
An extreme example was Fort Drum, the "concrete battleship", near Corregidor, Philippines; this mounted four huge 14-inch guns in two naval pattern turrets and was the only permanent turreted fort ever constructed by the United States. [30] Between the wars, improved turrets formed the offensive armament of the Maginot Line forts in France.