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one 40 mm gun mount., two .50 cal (12.7 mm) machine guns USS Agile (MSO-421) was an Agile -class minesweeper acquired by the U.S. Navy for the dangerous task of removing mines from minefields laid in the water to prevent ships from passing.
Casemate-mounted 5"/50 caliber gun on the USS North Dakota. A casemate is an armoured structure consisting of a static primary surface incorporating a limited-traverse gun mount: typically, this takes the form of either a gun mounted through a fixed armour plate (typically seen on tank destroyers and assault guns) or a mount consisting of a partial cylinder of armour "sandwiched" between ...
USS Conquest (MSO-488) was an Agile-class minesweeper in the United States Navy.. Conquest was laid down by the J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding Corp. of Tacoma, Washington on 26 March 1953 as AM-488, launched on 20 March 1954 by Mrs. C. D. Henderson.
Gun mount control panel (GMCP) – Backup interface for the GCC. Velocimeter – A Doppler radar system directly above or next to the gun barrel that measures each fired projectile's initial velocity (IV). The GMP uses the IV data for ballistic solution corrections. Velocimeter of 5"/54 caliber Mk 45 gun aboard USS The Sullivans ADSU of Mk 46 ...
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 be either manually or remote controlled, depending on variant.
The 30mm DS30M Mark 2 is a ship-protection system made by MSI-Defence Systems consisting of a 30mm Mark 44 Bushmaster II cannon on an automated mount. It was designed to defend Royal Navy frigates from fast inshore attack craft armed with short-range missiles, rocket-propelled grenades, machine guns, or explosives.
H/PJ-26 76mm main gun The AK-176M gun mount on a Vietnamese Project 10412 patrol boat. The AK-176 is a Soviet 76mm naval gun mounted in an enclosed turret, that may be used against sea, coastal, and aerial targets, including low flying anti-ship missiles. The system is designed to arm small displacement ships and comprises the Gun Mount with a ...
It was developed as a lightweight cannon that could equal or surpass the capabilities of the 120 mm M256 mounted on the M1A2 Abrams while being mounted on a much lighter vehicle. To achieve this the XM360 combined technologies such as Electrothermal-chemical technology (ETC), a gun tube with composite overwrapping and a modular recoil mechanism ...