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6"/50 caliber gun United States: World War II 152: 6-inch siege gun M1877 Russian Empire: World War I - World War II 152: 6 inch 35 caliber naval gun 1877 Russian Empire: 1885 - 1917 152: 152 mm 45 caliber Pattern 1892 Russian Empire: World War I - World War II 152.4: Cannone da 152/45 Italy: World War I - World War II 152: Type 41 15 cm/40 ...
10"/31 caliber gun United States: 1890s - 1921 254 mm (10.0 in) 10"/40 caliber gun Mark 3 United States: 1890 - 1921 254 mm (10.0 in) RML 10 inch 18 ton gun United Kingdom: 1868 - 1900s 254 mm (10.0 in) BL 10 inch Mk II - IV 32-caliber guns United Kingdom: 1885 - 1900s 254 mm (10.0 in) Cannone da 254/40 A Kingdom of Italy: 1893 - 1940s
It was long held as a rule of thumb that one shore-based gun equaled three naval guns of the same caliber, due to the steadiness of the coastal gun which allowed for significantly higher accuracy than their sea-mounted counterparts. [citation needed] Land-based guns also benefited in most cases from the additional protection of walls or earth ...
The nearest comparison would have been the prototyped and fire-tested 18-inch/48-caliber Mark 1 gun, although that caliber was never selected for production. 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 ...
Type 41 12-inch 45 caliber naval gun; Type 41 12-inch (305 mm)/40-caliber naval gun; Type 41 10 inch 45 caliber naval gun; 10 in/40 Type 41 naval gun; 20 cm/50 3rd year Type No.2 - gun used on heavy cruisers. 20 cm/50 3rd year Type No.1 - gun used on older heavy cruisers and aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga. Type 41 8-inch (203 mm)/45-caliber ...
As 16-inch guns and a companion improved 6-inch gun were emplaced, older weapons were scrapped. About 21 16-inch gun batteries were completed 1941-44, but not all of these were armed. [17] With the war over in 1945, most of the remaining coast defense guns, including the recently emplaced 16-inch weapons, were scrapped by 1948.
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls. The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet ), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the ...
The cannon shot (c. 1680), by Willem van de Velde the Younger. The 16th century was an era of transition in naval warfare. Since ancient times, war at sea had been fought much like that on land: with melee weapons and bows and arrows, but on floating wooden platforms rather than battlefields.