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Convert from inches: {{convert | 60 | to | 62 | in | hand cm | 2}} → 60 to 62 inches (15.0 to 15.2 hands; 152.40 to 157.48 cm) Using a full three-way conversion (hands, inches and centimeters) in all cases is strongly recommended, regardless of which measurement is given first.
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The 41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun is a 41-centimeter (16.1 in) breech-loading naval gun designed during World War I for the Imperial Japanese Navy.It served as the primary armament in the Nagato-class dreadnoughts completed after the end of the war and in coast defense mountings.
A 10-gauge (3 + 1 ⁄ 2-inch (89 mm)) shotgun shell shown next to a United States quarter. The 10 gauge narrowly escaped obsolescence when steel and other nontoxic shot became required for waterfowl hunting, since the larger shell could hold the much larg [1] er sizes of low-density steel shot needed to reach the ranges necessary for waterfowl ...
An improved weapon, the BL 16-inch Mark II was designed for the Lion-class battleship which was a successor to the King George V class taking advantage of the larger weapon allowed under the London Naval Treaty from March 1938. This "new design" of 16-inch gun fired a shell that weighed 2,375 pounds (1,077 kg).
The 16-inch gun was a built-up gun constructed in a length of 45 calibers. The Mark 1 had an A tube, jacket, liner, and seven hoops , four locking rings and a screw-box liner. When the gun was designed in August 1913 it was referred to as the "Type Gun (45 Cal.)" as an effort to conceal the gun's true size of 16 inches.
Government-specified barrel profile increased to between 0.675 and 0.575 inches; A2: Also referred to as the "government" or "gov't" profile. Barrel profile for which the portion of the barrel in front of handguards is thickened to 0.715 inches; HBAR: A barrel that in some portion is thicker than government-profile, usually underneath the ...
till 1934: 5 twin 7.9-inch type D 40° from 1934: 5 twin 8.0-inch type D 40° Takao-class heavy cruisers Takao, Atago, Chokai. 5 twin 8.0-inch type E 70° Maya. 5 twin 8.0-inch type E 55° Mogami-class heavy cruisers: Mogami, Mikuma, Kumano, Suzuya. till 1939: 5 triple 6.1-inch 55° (classified as light cruiser) from 1939: 5 twin 8.0-inch type ...