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The 8-inch gun M1 was a 203 mm towed heavy gun developed in the United States. At 32,584 m (35,635 yd), it had the longest range of any US Army field artillery weapon in World War II . It was also used in small numbers by the British Army .
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. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun barrel had an internal diameter of 8 inches (203 mm), and the barrel was 55 calibers long (barrel length is 8 inch × 55 = 440 inches ...
Note that the single ram operation used in semi-fixed guns decreases the loading time, and therefore increases the firing rate on medium and large caliber guns. For example, each of the nine 8"(203 mm)/55-caliber Rapid-Fire guns installed on the Des Moines-class cruiser used auto-loaded semi-fixed ammunition and had a firing rate of 10 to 12 ...
An anecdotal account of the 8-inch M1888 railway guns in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941–42 states that eight guns (another account says seven guns) were shipped to Manila in late 1940, as part of the Inland Seas Defense Project. Initially, difficulties were encountered because the railway carriages were 36-inch (914 mm ...
The BFG ("Big Fucking Gun") [1] is a fictional weapon found in many video games, mostly in id Software-developed series' such as Doom and Quake. The abbreviation BFG stands for "Big Fucking Gun" as described in Tom Hall 's original Doom design document and in the user manual of Doom II: Hell on Earth .
Around a quarter of the way through the game, the player acquires the gravity gun, properly named as the "Zero-point Energy Field Manipulator". Alyx Vance explains that the gravity gun is designed for handling hazardous materials, but is mostly used for heavy lifting. [1] She explains to Gordon that she once found it useful "for clearing ...
A new type of 4.5 inch gun with a longer 55-calibre barrel, it was designed in the 1960s for the Royal Navy's new classes of frigates and destroyers.The weapon, built by Vickers Ltd Armament Division, was developed by the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment using the Ordnance, QF 105 mm L13 of the Abbot self-propelled gun as a starting point (it used electrical primers).
8 Submachine guns/machine pistols. 9 Cartridges. 10 Other firearms. Toggle Other firearms subsection. 10.1 Flare devices. 10.2 Ceremonial. 10.3 Underwater pistol. 11 ...