Ashore, a coastal defense battery of 6-inch guns that had been installed in 1909 to defend the station had been withdrawn due to budget cuts in the 1930s along with a Marine aviation unit. This left 274 Navy personnel (includingPenguin’screw) between the Naval Yard at Piti, the Hospital ...
Vietnam Era 3 inch by 6 yard Compressed Gauze Bandage Use Cases & Issue? By jayhawkhenry,February 6 MILITARY EDUCATION & TRAINING For any item pertaining to any US Military Academy (i.e. West Point), Colleges, Schools, ROTC (both High School and College), Training Fields/Bases (i.e. ...
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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...
United States of America (1944-1945) Utility Vehicle – Prototypes Only The T33 Cargo Carrier and T13 Armored Utility Vehicle were designed in the United States of America during the Second World War. The T13 and T33 occupy a space in development as transition vehicles in the sense that ...
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...
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 ...
The Tyler carried one 32-pounder smoothbore and six 8-inch smoothbore guns, while the Lexington carried two 32-pounder smoothbores and four 8-inch smoothbores. The Conestoga, the weakest of the three, carried four 32-pounder smoothbores. (For those unfamiliar with naval gunnery, the weights...
Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
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.