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5 inches (127 mm) 5"/54-caliber Mk 45 gun United States: 1971–present 5 inches (127 mm) 5"/62-caliber Mk 45 gun United States: 2000–present 130 millimetres (5.1 in) Type H/PJ38 130 mm naval gun People's Republic of China: 2014–present 130 millimetres (5.1 in) Canon de 130 mm Modèle 1932 et 1935 France: 1935-1942 5.25 inches (133 mm) QF 5 ...
The 8-inch (203 mm)/45 caliber gun was developed after the Spanish–American War to use the new smokeless powder that had recently been adopted by the Navy. This gun was much stronger than its predecessor, the 8-inch/40 caliber gun , [ 1 ] which were incapable of handling the new powder.
World War II - Cold War 130 mm (5.1 in) AK-130 Soviet Union: Cold War 130 mm (5.1 in) Canon de 130 mm Modèle 1919 France: World War II 130 mm (5.1 in) Canon de 130 mm Modèle 1924 France: World War II 130 mm (5.1 in) Canon de 130 mm Modèle 1932 and 1935 France: World War II 133 mm (5.2 in) QF 5.25 inch Mark I United Kingdom
The 8-inch Navy gun Mk.VI M3A2 on railway mount M1A1 was a World War II improved replacement for the World War I-era 8-inch (203 mm) M1888 gun and was used by the US Army's Coast Artillery Corps in US harbor defenses. The guns were also mounted in fixed emplacements on the barbette carriage M1A1. [1]
By 1885 the Royal Navy abandoned the 8-inch gun in favour of the 9.2 inch and later the 7.5 inch gun for cruisers, until 1923 when the restrictions of the Washington Naval Treaty led Britain to develop the Mk VIII 8-inch gun in order to arm heavy cruisers with the largest gun allowed by the Treaty.
The 14-inch/45-caliber gun, (spoken "fourteen-inch-forty-five-caliber" [citation needed]), whose variations were known initially as the Mark 1, 2, 3, and 5, and, when upgraded in the 1930s, were redesignated as the Mark 8, 9, 10, and 12. They were the first 14-inch (356 mm) guns to be employed by the United States Navy.
The rounded roofs of early Mark 9 twin and triple turrets of USS Salt Lake City and USS Pensacola with the later turrets of USS New Orleans on the right.. The 8"/55 caliber gun (spoken "eight-inch-fifty-five-caliber") formed the main battery of United States Navy heavy cruisers and two early aircraft carriers.
The BL 6-inch gun Marks II, III, IV and VI [note 1] were the second and subsequent generations of British 6-inch rifled breechloading naval guns, designed by the Royal Gun Factory in the 1880s following the first 6-inch breechloader, the relatively unsuccessful BL 6-inch 80-pounder gun designed by Elswick Ordnance.