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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 ...
These included Navy guns Marks 2 through 6, of 30, 40, 45, and 50 calibers length. All of the Bannerman guns were 30 calibers long; the number of guns of other lengths is unclear. Sources state that all Navy guns were cut down to 30 calibers barrel length in an attempt to standardize ballistics, as that was the length of the shortest Navy guns.
7"/45 caliber gun (178 mm), ex-Navy guns; 155 mm gun M1918, a tractor-drawn French-designed weapon built for the U.S. Army (6.1-inch) 155 mm Long Tom gun M1/M2; 6-inch gun M1903 on a new high-angle shielded mounting (also M1905, M1/T2) 6-inch gun M1900 on pedestal mounting (some retained until after the war) 6"/50 caliber gun, ex-Navy Mark 6 ...
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 ...
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
Typical 3-inch gun emplacement, Fort Stark, New Hampshire. 3-inch gun M1903 at Fort Casey, Washington state, formerly at Fort Wint, Subic Bay, Philippines. The 3-inch gun M1903 and its predecessors the M1898 and M1902 were rapid fire breech-loading artillery guns with a 360-degree traverse. In some references they are called "15-pounders" due ...
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 ...
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.