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This led to the development of the 10-inch/40 caliber gun. [1] The Mark 3 was specifically designed for the Tennessee-class armored cruisers, numbered in order after the Mark 1 and Mark 2s, Nos. 27–47, with No. 27 being delivered in February 1906. Nos. 27–31, 36, and 45 were all Mod 0s, with Nos. 37–44, 46, and 47 being Mod 1s.
The Mark 3 was a 48.9 calibers built-up gun designed and built in the United Kingdom for use in the two New Orleans-class protected cruisers that the US Navy had purchased from the United Kingdom before the Spanish–American War. They were based on the British 4.7-inch Gun Mark IV, but a non-standard export model, the standard Mark IV was 40 ...
The 3-inch/50-caliber gun (Mark 22) was a semiautomatic anti-aircraft weapon with a power-driven automatic loader and was fitted as single and twin mounts. The single mount was to be exchanged for a twin 40 mm antiaircraft gun mount, and the twin 3-inch/50 for a quadruple 40 mm mount, on Essex -class aircraft carriers , and Allen M. Sumner and ...
The 16"/50 caliber Mark 2 gun and the near-identical Mark 3 were guns originally designed and built for the United States Navy as the main armament for the South Dakota-class battleships and Lexington-class battlecruisers. The successors to the 16"/45 caliber gun Mark I gun, they were at the time among the heaviest guns built for use as naval ...
The Mark 3, gun Nos. 15–48 and 50–56, was constructed of tube, jacket, and eight hoops. It was found that the early guns suffered from excessive bore erosion, in an attempt to fix this the Navy reduced the propellant charges to reduce the muzzle velocity, because of this the Mark 4, gun Nos. 49, 58–60, 150–154, and 179, was similar to ...
16 in Mark III coastal defense gun on a proof mount at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. The second 16-inch (406 mm) gun was the United States Army 50 caliber Model 1919 (M1919). The first of these was deployed to Fort Michie , Great Gull Island , New York on a unique all-around-fire M1917 disappearing carriage, with elevation increased from ...
The 3"/70 Mark 26 Gun was a US post war naval anti-aircraft gun. Developed as a joint project with the United Kingdom, which called it the QF 3-inch Mark N1 gun, it had a water-cooled barrel combined with an automatic loader to deliver high rates of fire.
Enfield produced a total of 220,000 Mark I Bren guns, [47] 57,600 in Mark III, [48] and 250 in Mark IV. [49] Canada. John Inglis and Company received a contract from the British and Canadian governments in March 1938 to supply 5,000 Bren machine guns to the UK and 7,000 Bren machine guns to Canada.