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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
Type 3 120 mm 45 caliber naval gun - Gun used on older destroyers. 10 cm/65 Type 98 naval gun - Akizuki-class destroyer , aircraft carrier Taihō, Ōyodo. 8 cm/60 Type 98 naval gun - Anti-aircraft gun used on Agano-class cruisers. 8 cm/40 3rd Year Type naval gun - Anti-aircraft gun used on many Japanese ships built between 1910 and 1930.
The 18"/48 caliber Mark 1 – United States Naval Gun was the initial name and design for a large caliber naval gun in the early 1920s. After the Washington Naval Treaty prohibited the development of guns larger than 16 in (406 mm), the gun was relined and finished as a high velocity 16"/56 Mark 4 gun.
It was the largest and heaviest gun ever used by the British. [1] Only the Second-World-War Japanese 46 cm/45 Type 94 had a larger calibre, 18.1 inches (46 cm), but it fired a lighter shell. The gun was a scaled-up version of the BL 15 inch Mk I naval gun and was developed to equip the "large light cruiser" (a form of battlecruiser) Furious ...
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 October 2016, which is armed with the 155 mm Advanced Gun System.
2 List of naval guns by caliber size. 3 Naval anti-aircraft guns. 4 See also. 5 References. ... List of the largest cannon by caliber; Glossary of British ordnance terms;
Installed on the lower deck of the larger warships, the 36-pounder long gun was the largest caliber used in the Navy of the Age of the Sail. Attempts to use 48-pounders were made, for instance on Royal Louis, but these proved impractical to use on ships, partly because their weight allowed for only a few pieces, and because the heavy balls were unwieldy to load by hand.
BL 18 inch Mk I naval gun: Naval gun: 1916 United Kingdom: Elswick Ordnance Company: 3 made; used in combat; the largest ever ship-installed gun by shell weight; none survives 457 18"/47 caliber Mark A gun: Naval gun (experimental; never installed to a ship) 1942 United States [note 1] 450 100-ton gun (RML 17.72 inch gun) Naval gun: 1877 United ...