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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1958
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  • ...× 8) armoured personnel carrier. A small number of these have now entered service. More recently, the 30&nbsp;mm 2A42 cannon has been installed in a new turr ...dual- and six-barrel naval and air force cannons. The 2A42, 2A38 and 2A72 fire percussion-primed ammunition; the naval and aerial cannons use electrical p
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1937 - 1956<ref name="Breyer">Breyer 1973 pp.374-380</ref>
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1972 - present
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1940-1945
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1934—?
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1934
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1953 - present
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=Mark 45 Mod 0: 1971<br />Mark 45 Mod 1: 1980<br />Mark 45 Mod 2: 1988
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1846 - 1921
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  • <!-- Service history --> | service = 1933-1986
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  • |service= 1925 - 1940 ...re made to mount existing [[field gun]]s on new mounts to allow high angle fire, but it was soon obvious that more a more specialised weapon was needed. At
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  • |service= 1936 - 1940 .../32 was equipped to receive [[Gun laying|gun-laying]] information from a [[Fire-control system|central sight]], and also had a device for automatically adj
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1937-1950?
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1962 - present
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  • |service=Never used |feed=75 rounds on ready service loader
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1925 - 1975
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  • |service=[[1940]] - ...8 and T9 versions developed in the early 1930s that were intended to enter service later in the decade.
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  • ...or other [[artillery]], and are mechanically loaded for a faster [[rate of fire]]. They can use a variety of ammunition: common shells include high-explosi ...00 rounds per minute. Williams, p. 241.</ref> Such extremely high rates of fire are effectively employed by aircraft in air-to-air combat, where the target
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  • * Entered service - 1940 * Rate of fire - 2 rounds per minute
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1888 - 190?
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  • <!-- Service history --> | service = 1918
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1916 - 1945
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  • |service=1901 - 1972 (Fort Scratchley) <br>1915 - 1918 (field use) ...ich was mounted on a heavy traveling carriage in 1915 for [[British Army]] service to become one of the main heavy field guns in the [[World War I|First World
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1931 - 1985
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1919 - 1945<ref name="Whitley">Whitley 1995 pp.77-80</ref>
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1927 - 1954<ref name="Whitley">Whitley 1995 pp.17,83&89</ref>
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1881 - 1918
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1934–present
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1966 - present
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  • ...armament of the [[CV90]] [[infantry fighting vehicle]]s (IFV) currently in service by the [[Danish Army|Danish]] and [[Royal Netherlands Army|Dutch]] armies. *'''Rate of Fire:''' Semi-automatic or 200 spm
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  • ...er of 75 mm, the barrel was 46 caliber-lengths long and it was accepted in service in 1934. *Rate of fire:
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  • ...designed cannon, and one of the most successful anti-aircraft guns to see service during [[World War II]]. It was used both in an anti-aircraft role and as a ...se systems proved troublesome and unreliable, while the less sophisticated fire control system of the 90/53 was found to be highly reliable, though not as
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1934—54
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  • ...ish Army from 1945 to the late 1990s. It was gradually replaced in Swedish service by updated AK5 and AK4 assault rifles. ...tuation (straight blowback) makes it easy to control during full automatic fire. Single shots are also easy to achieve (with very little training) by letti
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1948 - Present
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1950s–1960s
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1954 - present
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  • ...moving the howitzer from the launch to field carriage and back. In naval service the boat howitzers had gun crews of 10 in the boat and 11 ashore. ...] and [[shell (projectile)|shell]]. Percussion primers were used in naval service, but the howitzers could also use friction primers obtained from the army.
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1970s–present
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1977–present
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1980s-present
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  • <!-- Service history --> | service = 1980-Present
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1965-present
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1980–present
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  • ...''' ({{lang-ru|Грязев-Шипунов ГШ-6-23}}), also known by its service designation, '''9-A-768,''' is a powerful, fast-firing six-barreled 23&nbsp ...the aircraft's power systems, and they accelerate to their maximum rate of fire much more quickly. There is less "spin-up" time for the barrels than with a
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  • ...he [[Ho-1 cannon|Ho-1]] and [[Ho-3 cannon|Ho-3]] (Army Type 97) in general service. The Ho-5 was belt-fed using typical Browning-style steel disintegrating li *'''Rate of fire:''' 450-600 rounds/min
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  • ...saw limited use during World War II. It was the largest gun to see active service derived from the Model 1921 Aircraft Browning. It was used as upward-obliq *'''Rate of fire:''' 400 rounds/min
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1996 - Present
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=[[Sweden]]
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1955 &ndash; 1980s
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1967-present
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  • <!-- Service history --> | service = 1972–present
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  • Former: Colt's Patent Fire Arms Company, High Standard Company, Savage Arms Corporation, Buffalo Arms |service= M2HB from 1933–present
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  • ...automatic twin 40&nbsp;mm M2A1 [[Bofors 40 mm gun|Bofors]], with a rate of fire of 240 rounds per minute (rpm) and either a .30 cal. [[M1919 Browning machi ...ted as the M42. Initially, aiming the 40mm guns assisted by a [[radar]] [[fire control system]] housed in a secondary vehicle of similar design but this i
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1939
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1959–present
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1943-1945
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  • ...igher muzzle velocities were felt to be worth the risk. The MK 103 entered service in 1943 as main armament of the [[Henschel Hs 129|Hs 129 B-1]] ground-attac ...e-engine fighter planes such as the Bf-109K, but probably never saw active service. As a consequence, the MK 103 was largely restricted to the role of an air
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1943–1945
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1931-1980
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  • ...e and gave off too much hydrogen gas<ref>Blair, p.280.</ref> (a hazard for fire shipboard, and potentially lethal in submarines), and there were bugs in pr The design was dropped from service in 1950 in favor of faster and more reliable later types.<ref>[http://www.n
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1968
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1895-Present
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1943-1945
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  • ...replace the [[World War II|wartime]] [[Nudelman-Suranov NS-37]], entering service in 1946. It was 30% lighter than its predecessor at the cost of a 23% lower ...z AP-T) shell. Its muzzle velocity was still considerable, but its rate of fire was only 400 rounds per minute. The weapon's considerable [[recoil]] and wa
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1936–1945
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1964 - present
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  • ...United States Military Academy|West Point]] graduate. He resigned from the service in 1836 and became the superintendent of the [[West Point Foundry]] in [[Co ...|yd}} with a trained crew.<ref name="Big Guns at Gettysburg">National Park Service: Gettysburg National Military Park. [http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/soldie
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  • | image = [[File:Phalanx CIWS test fire - 081107-N-5416W-003.jpg|300px]] | caption = Phalanx (Block 1a) live fire test, [[USS Monterey (CG-61)]]
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1894-1945
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1890s - 1918
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1915–1940s (Mk II)<br>1930–1940s (Mk VIII)
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service= 1937–1959
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  • |service=1914—46<ref name=Hogg&Thurston1972page78>Hogg & Thurston 1972, page 78</r ...f name=Routledge1994page13/> This would appear to be the effective rate of fire found to be sustainable in action.
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  • ...e to develop a mounting with elevation over 55°, the lack of a predictive fire control system in destroyer classes built prior to the introduction of the * '''QF Mark II''': Land service used by the [[British Army]].
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1887–1918
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  • <!-- Service history --> |service=1900–1945
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