Pushing some 25,000 tons at full load, they could make 19 knots, which was faster than a lot of submarines looking to plug them. A decent suite of about 60 AAA guns spread across 5-inch, 40mm, and 20mm fittings could put as much flying lead in the air as a light cruiser of the ...
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12 × 16-inch (406 mm)/50 cal Mark 7 guns (4 × 3) 20 × 5-inch (127 mm)/54 cal Mark 16 guns 10–40 × Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft guns 56 × Oerlikon 20 mm anti-aircraft cannons Background Recognizing the role that a naval arms race had played in the run-up toWorld War ...
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The first DDG(X) rendering, presented at SNA 2022, features a 5-inch Mark 45 Mod 4 main gun forward of the bow mounted 32-cell Mark 41 VLS. It also features three AN/SLQ-32(V)7 arrays on the superstructure next to the two forward AN/SPY-6(V)1 radar arrays. Acco...
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New Orleans begins to sink after being engaged by the Australian navy frigate HMAS Warramunga (FFH 152) with her 5-inch gun. New Orleans rolls on its side and begins to sink after being impacted by rounds fired from several ships.
The ship’s close-in gun system is the BAE Systems Land and Armaments 57mm mk110 naval gun. The gun has a firing rate of 220 rounds a minute and a range of 14km. Raytheon IDS is supplying the ship’s electrooptical/infrared suite, which has five Lockheed Martin sensors and provides ...