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2. 5-inch/54-caliber Mark 45 gun - Wikipedia

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   The 5-inch (127 mm)/54-caliber (Mk 45) lightweight gun is a U.S. naval artillery gun mount consisting of a 5 in (127 mm) L54 Mark 19 gun on the Mark 45 mount. [1] It was designed and built by United Defense, a company later acquired by BAE Systems Land & Armaments, which continued manufacture.

3. 5-inch/54-caliber Mark 42 gun - Wikipedia

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   United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fires a projectile 5 inches (127.0 mm) in diameter, and the barrel is 54 calibers long (barrel length is 5" × 54 = 270" or 6.9 meters.) [1] In the 1950s a gun with more range and a faster rate of fire than the 5"/38 caliber gun used in World War II was needed, therefore, the gun was created ...

4. 5-inch/38-caliber gun - Wikipedia

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   [5]: 81 (note: artillery caliber and small arms caliber are not the same). 38 caliber means that the barrel from breech face to muzzle is 38 calibers in length. [5]: 81 As this gun's caliber is 5 inches (127mm), its barrel length is 38 times 5 inches: 190 inches (480 cm; 16 ft). Barrel description [5]: 160

5. List of naval guns by caliber - Wikipedia

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   138 mm (5.4 in) Canon de 138 mm Modèle 1910 naval gun France: World War I - World War II 138 mm (5.4 in) Canon de 138 mm Modèle 1927 France: World War II 138 mm (5.4 in) Canon de 138 mm Modèle 1929 France: World War II - Cold War 140 mm (5.5 in) Gonzalez Hontoria de 14 cm mod 1883 Spain: 1883 – 1900s 140 mm (5.5 in) BL 5.5 inch/ 50 Mk I

6. Zuni (rocket) - Wikipedia

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   The Zuni 5-inch Folding-Fin Aircraft Rocket (FFAR), or simply Zuni, is a 5.0 in (127 mm) unguided rocket developed by the Hunter-Douglas Division of Bridgeport Brass Company and deployed by the United States Armed Forces, [1] [2] and the French Air Force. [3] The rocket was developed for both air-to-air and air-to-ground operations.

7. 5-inch/51-caliber gun - Wikipedia

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   5"/51 caliber guns (spoken "five-inch-fifty-one-caliber") initially served as the secondary battery of United States Navy battleships built from 1907 through the 1920s, also serving on other vessels. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 5-inch (127 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 51 calibers long.

8. 5-inch/40-caliber gun - Wikipedia

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   Mod 5, gun No. 39, was an experimental gun that had 25 inches (640 mm) cut off of the muzzle, making it a 35-caliber gun. It also had a locking hoop that extended the whole length of the chase hoop to help balance the gun. The Mod 6 was a Mod 4 gun that had been modified for use in the 5-inch Mark 8 Mods 4, 13, and 14 mounts.

9. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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   1.0 mm – 0.03937 inches or 5/127 (exactly) 1.0 mm – side of a square of area 1 mm²; 1.0 mm – diameter of a pinhead; 1.5 mm – average length of a flea [27] 2.54 mm – distance between pins on old dual in-line package (DIP) electronic components; 5 mm – length of an average red ant; 5 mm – diameter of an average grain of rice