The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems over $70 million to upgrade Mk 45 5-inch naval gun systems and ancillary equipment. Read More 28 January 2025 News U.S. Navy Comments on Future VLS Cell Count Naval News asked U.S. Navy’s VADM James Pitts whether the U.S. Navy will have eno...
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 3...
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. Decommissoned US Navy amphibious assault ship USS New Orl...
The urgent need for river-going warships could not be filled through the slow and still experimental construction of ironclads, so the steamers were fitted with the five-inch thick oak beams that gave the ships their name – timberclads. This wooden armor was capable of defending against small...
Standard 5 inches (5″/25 caliber gun, 127 mm) heavy naval gun onboard a Balao class sub In between, many ships has been given the standard all-purpose 4in -3″/23 cal. (76.2 mm) gun. More often, the all-purpose 3-inch M1918 gun, cal.50 was preferred for AA duties. Rare, bu...
air, anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare. Those missions are supported with armaments including the Standard Missile (SM-2MR); Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rocket missiles; Tomahawks; six MK-46 torpedoes; Close In Weapon System (CIWS); MK 45 five-inch gun; and Evolved Sea Sparrow ...
The ship’s electronic countermeasures/support measures system is the Raytheon AN/ LQ-32(V)3, which performs radar warning and jamming. The new SLQ-32(V)6 variant enhances the destroyers’ electronic warfare capabilities. The US Navy is working with Northrop Grumman under the Surface Electronic ...
overall with a 3.75-inch barrel and a weight of 2lbs 4oz. The pistol has a grip safety and a frame-mounted safety and a push-button magazine release on the left side of the frame. Sadly the pistol was behind glass and with time short we couldn’t get a better look at the gun. ...
Windom, at Hampton Roads at the time,received ordersto report at Norfolk and was there on 25 April when Congress passed the resolution recognizing that a state of war existed between the United States and Spain. She was painted gray and fitted with a four-inch main gun and a second 6-...
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