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It was initially used aboard light cruisers and cruisers including the Swedish Tre Kronor class and the Dutch De Zeven Provinciën class, after World War II. The last active ship to use the gun was the Peruvian Navy cruiser BAP Almirante Grau and was the largest naval gun still in active service prior to the commissioning of USS Zumwalt in ...
12 cm/12 short naval gun Japan: World War II 120 mm (4.7 in) Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun Japan: World War I - World War II 120 mm (4.7 in) 12 cm/45 10th Year Type naval gun Japan: World War II 120 mm (4.7 in) 12 cm 11th Year Type naval gun Japan: World War II 120 mm (4.7 in) BL 4.7 inch /45 naval gun Mk I, Mk II 45-caliber
2 List of naval guns by ... List of the largest cannon by caliber ... External links. NAVWEAPS – Naval weapons of the world, 1880 to today (retrieved 2010-02 ...
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.
Naval gun: 1914-1920 United States: Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., Bethlehem Steel: 41 made 406 16"/50 caliber Mark 2 gun: Naval gun: 1917-1922 United States: Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C., Bethlehem Steel: 71 made 406 80-ton gun (RML 16 inch gun) Naval gun: 1874 United Kingdom: Royal Gun Factory 8 made; 2 survive 406 BL 16 ...
12.7 cm/40 Type 89 naval gun - gun used on almost all Japanese ships cruiser size and larger, Matsu and Tachibana-class escorts. 12 cm/45 10th Year Type naval gun Anti-aircraft gun used in older carriers and some cruisers.
The navy, for which 9 barrels with 70 caliber twist rate had been completed in 1870, now decided to let these be bored up to 283 mm with retention of the twist rate. Nine more guns, which were not yet completely finished, got the same twist rate as the second test gun, i.e. 50 calibers twist rate.
The 40.6 cm SK C/34, [Note 1] sometimes known as the Adolfkanone (Adolf gun), was a German naval gun, designed in 1934 by Krupp and originally intended for the early H-class battleships. Description [ edit ]