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• List of naval anti-aircraft guns
  ...raft gun]]s specially designed or adapted for mounting on ships, and naval guns adapted for high-angle fire. Today they have been largely superseded by [[s | [[QF 2 pounder naval gun|QF 2 pdr Mk II, Mk VIII]] Vickers 2-pounder ''pom-pom''
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• USS Hurst (DE-250)
  |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Mexico|naval}} ...ms | chapter = Mexico | location = [[Annapolis, Maryland]] | publisher = [[Naval Institute Press]] | year = 2007 | isbn = 9781591149552 | oclc = 140283156 |
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• USS Joyce (DE-317)
  ...dy, and {{USS|Peterson|DE-152|2}} shelled the submarine, silenced her deck guns and forced the hapless U-550 to surrender. ''Joyce'' ordered the Germans to ...outh Korea]] ''Joyce'' was recalled to active duty; taken to [[Mare Island Naval Shipyard]], [[Vallejo, California]], where she converted to a [[radar picke
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• USS Mosley (DE-321)
  ...ing smoke and opened up with [[antiaircraft]] fire during the strikes. Her guns splashed one [[Ju-88]] and damaged another German bomber during the first s ...he [[Atlantic Inactive Fleet]] at Orange, Texas. She was struck from the [[Naval Vessel Register|Navy List]] on 2 January 1971 and was sold for scrap on 22
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• USS Wilhoite (DE-397)
  ...at sector, sent up several barrages with her 3-inch, 40- and 20-millimeter guns. ...er target and attacked. The destroyer escort responded by bringing all her guns to bear and fired such a heavy and accurate barrage that the German pilot d
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• USS Brough (DE-148)
  ...Lieutenant Junior Grade]] [[David Atkins Brough]] (15 June 1914–1942), a Naval Aviator who was awarded the [[Air Medal]] [[Posthumous recognition|posthumo ...[[torpedo tube]]s, eight 20mm guns, a twin 40 mm and three 3"/5O cal. guns. But as the pattern of warfare shifted from surface to air actions, repeate
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• USS Savage (DE-386)
  ...ed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard (where she was fitted with more anti-aircraft guns). She then sailed, on 30 May, 1945 for an intensive period of operational ...sea infiltration by North Vietnamese and assisted land forces by providing naval gunfire support. She had no periods out of Vietnam service until October w
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• USS Haverfield (DE-393)
  ...s, including [[Mortar (weapon)|mortars]], [[recoilless rifles]], [[machine guns]], and [[Anti-tank warfare|antitank weapons]]. This represented the largest ''Haverfield'' was decommissioned on 2 June 1969 at [[Pearl Harbor]] Naval Base. On 2 June 1969 she was struck from the [[Navy list]] and on sold for
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• USS Wachapreague (AGP-8)
  ...-aircraft warfare|anti-aircraft]] guns<br />8 x 20-millimeter antiaircraft guns<br />2 x [[depth charge]] tracks ...ttacked the ship, only to be driven off by a heavy [[anti-aircraft warfare|anti-aircraft]] barrage. Later that day, ''Wachapreague'' shifted to [[Hinunagan Bay]] fo
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• BRP Francisco Dagohoy (PF-10)
  ...17)]], before becoming ''Francisco Dagohoy''. The ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' entries for ''Castle Rock'' (see http://www.history.navy.m ...fare. She also carried two twin Mark 1 [[Bofors]] 40&nbsp;mm anti-aircraft guns, four Markk 4 single 20&nbsp;mm [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|Oerlikon]] cannons,
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• USCGC Staten Island (WAGB-278)
  |Ship flag= {{shipboxflag|Soviet Union|naval}} ...40 mm|40 mm/60 AA guns]]<br/>• 6 × [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|20 mm/80 AA guns]]<br/>• 2 × [[depth charge]] racks, [[Y-gun]] projectors<br/>• 1 × [[
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• USS Wainwright (DD-62)
  ...FS /> <br/>• [[Jonathan Wainwright, Jr.]] <br/>• [[Richard Wainwright (naval officer, Civil War)|Richard Wainwright]] ...rporation|New York Shipbuilding]]<ref name=DANFS>{{cite DANFS | author = [[Naval History & Heritage Command]] | url = http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w1/w
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• USS Porter (DD-59)
  ...uilder=[[William Cramp and Sons]]<ref name=DANFS>{{cite DANFS | author = [[Naval History & Heritage Command]] | url = http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p10/ ...way's'' (p. 123) lists eight torpedo tubes; the ''[[Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships]]'' ([http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/p10/porter-ii.htm li
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• USS Bangor (PF-16)
  |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|Mexico|naval}} ...caliber gun]]s (3×1)<br />• 4 × 40 mm guns (2×2)<br />• 9 × 20 mm guns (9×1)<br />• 1 × [[Hedgehog (weapon)|Hedgehog]] [[anti-submarine mortar
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• Barnegat class seaplane tender
  ...the company's name, which also is referred to in ''Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships'' entries as "Associated Shipbuilding Company" (see http://w ...ircraft gun mount, 2 × twin 40 mm gun mounts, and 6 × 20 mm antiaircraft guns (also [[Mousetrap (weapon)|Mousetrap]] aboard ''Coos Bay'' only).
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• 8.8 cm FlaK 18/36/37/41
  ...s of the war. Developments of the original models led to a wide variety of guns. ...eing used as the decimal separator in German). <!-- The Allied slang for anti-aircraft fire, ''ack-ack'', does not come from the German, but is a World War I term
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• 1-inch Nordenfelt gun
  |type= [[Naval gun]] |manufacturer=Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company
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• AK-630
  | image = [[Image:AK-630 30 mm naval CIWS gun.JPEG|300px|]] The '''AK-630''' is a [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] fully automatic naval six-barreled 30 mm [[Gatling gun]]. It is mounted in an enclosed automatic
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• AK-230
  ...anuary 2009}}, mounted on big warships as well as small crafts. About 1450 guns were produced in the USSR and about 300 were produced in China as the Type ...and a total length of 2670 mm. The barrels are rifled with 12 grooves. The guns each have a rate of fire of 1,000 round per minute, they are fed by indepen
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• 25 mm Hotchkiss anti-aircraft gun
  The '''Hotchkiss 25 mm anti-aircraft gun''' was a [[anti-aircraft]] [[autocannon]] designed by the French firm of Hotchkiss. It served in Wor ...o hundred [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon|Oerlikons]], the lack of modern light AA guns greatly hampered the French army in the campaign.
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• Vickers S
  ...Kimber |location=London |date=1972 |isbn=7183-0362-8 |chapter=10, The 40mm Guns Two underwing guns were fitted to [[Hawker Hurricane|Hawker Hurricane IID]] [[Fighter aircraft
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