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The gun was only initially known as the 41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun before it was redesignated as the 40 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun (official designation: 45 caliber 3rd Year Type 40 cm Gun) on 29 March 1922 to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty which forbade guns larger than 40.6 cm (16 in). [4]
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 ]
The 46 cm (18.1 in) 46 cm/45 Type 94 naval rifle was a wire-wound gun. Mounted in three 3-gun turrets (nine per ship), they served as the main armament of the two Yamato-class battleships that were in service with the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. When the turrets and the guns were mounted, each weighed 2,510 tons, which is about ...
46 cm/45 Type 94 - Japanese 46 cm gun mounted in the Yamato-class battleships. 41 cm/45 3rd Year Type - Japanese 41 cm gun mounted in the Nagato-class battleships. 14"/36 cm/45 41st Year Type - Japanese 35.6 cm gun used on the Ise-, Fusō- and Kongō-class battleships. Type 41 12-inch 45 caliber naval gun; Type 41 12-inch (305 mm)/40-caliber ...
12 cm kan M/94 (Bofors 12 cm naval gun L/45 model 1894) Sweden-Norway: 1890s - Cold War 120 mm (4.7 in) 12 cm kan M/11 (Bofors 12 cm naval gun L/45 model 1911) Sweden: World War I - Cold War 120 mm (4.7 in) 12 cm kan M/24 (Bofors 12 cm naval gun L/45 model 1924) Sweden: Interwar - Cold War 120 mm (4.7 in) Bofors 120 mm Automatic Gun L/50
This includes 16-inch guns, ... 41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun; B. BL 16-inch Mk I naval gun; R. RML 16-inch 80-ton gun; T. Type 4 40 cm rocket launcher
The ship was propelled by a triple expansion steam engine, which had cylinders of 15 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches (40 cm) 25 + 1 ⁄ 4 inches (64 cm) and 41 + 5 ⁄ 16 inches (104.9 cm) diameter by 31 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches (80 cm) stroke. The engine was built byStettiner Oderwerke.
In World War I Britain urgently needed heavy artillery on the Western Front, and various obsolete 6-inch naval guns were converted to 8-inch howitzers. Sixty-three QF 6-inch Mk II guns were shortened, bored out to 8 in (200 mm) and converted to BL type to produce the BL 8-inch howitzer Mk V. [ 12 ] Four entered service in December 1915 and 59 ...