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HMS Incomparable was the name given by Admiral John "Jackie" Fisher to a proposal for a very large battlecruiser which was suggested in 1915. The design was intended to mount 20-inch guns, which would have been the largest ever mounted on a warship.
BL 6 inch Mk XI naval gun 50-caliber United Kingdom: World War I - World War II 152.4 mm (6.00 in) BL 6 inch Mk XII naval gun 45-caliber United Kingdom: World War I - World War II 152.4 mm (6.00 in) BL 6 inch naval guns Mk XIII – XVIII United Kingdom: World War I - World War II 152.4 mm (6.00 in) BL 6 inch Mk XXII naval gun 50-caliber
8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun - Anti-aircraft gun used on many Japanese ships built between 1910 and 1930. Type 41 3-inch (7.62 cm)/40-caliber naval gun Type 96 25 mm AT/AA Gun - gun used on almost all Japanese warships of World War II.
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 ...
Even the proposed Montana-class super-battleship of the United States Navy would not have matched the Type 94 guns, mounting twelve of the tested 16-inch/50-caliber Mark 7 guns found on the Iowa-class battleships, rather than the prototype 18-inch Mark 1. Six 20-inch guns were the proposed armament of HMS Incomparable, a very large ...
These heavy guns were intended to be mounted in seacoast fortifications. 8-inch, 10-inch, 13-inch, 15-inch, and 20-inch bore (20, 25, 33, 38, and 51 cm) Rodman guns were produced. Other than size, the guns were all nearly identical in design, with a curving bottle shape, a large flat cascabels , and ratchets or sockets for the elevating mechanism.
The typical installation was ten 20 cm/50 guns; although Tone-class cruisers carried eight while Furutaka and Aoba-class cruisers carried six. After modernization, Akagi and Kaga carried only six, divided in three casemates per side, after the removal (during the 1935 reconstruction) of the four guns in two turrets on both ships placed on the ...
Naval gun Field gun: ... The Armstrong Breech Loading 20-pounder gun, later known as RBL 20-pounder, was an early modern 3.75-inch rifled breech-loading light gun of ...