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  • |wars= World War II ..., 3, and 5, and later as the Mark 8, 9, 10, and 12, were the first 14-inch guns to be employed with the [[United States Navy]]. They were installed aboard
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  • |wars= World War I ...ti-aircraft]] gun for [[United States]] [[destroyers]] through [[World War I]] and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fir
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  • |image=[[Image:Dreanoughts Danton-Main guns.jpg|300px|]] |caption=Main guns of the [[French battleship Danton|''Danton'']]
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  • |wars=[[Second World War]] ...carried two 548-tonne twin turrets and two 745-tonne triple turrets. All guns used pneumatically operated side-swing [[Welin breech block]]s. Each barre
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  • |wars=[[Vietnam War]], [[Cambodian Civil War]] ...fulness against lightly armored ground targets. Crews of the 37&nbsp;mm AD guns shot down 14,657 Axis planes<ref name="ReferenceA">Shunkov V. N. - ''The We
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  • ...[[first American shots fired in World War II|first American shot of World War II]] at [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|Pearl Harbor]] on 7 December 1941 |wars= [[World War I]] [[World War II]]
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  • |wars=[[Falklands war]] ...libre [[QF 4.5 inch Mk I - V naval gun]]s. Like all British 4.5 inch naval guns, it actually has a calibre of 4.45 inches (113 mm)<ref name=Janes1999>Jane'
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  • ...uzzle velocity of 2650fps (808m/s).<ref>Campbell, ''Naval Weapons of World War Two'', p48.</ref> The 40 degree elevation was justified on the grounds that [[Category:Naval anti-aircraft guns]]
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  • |wars= [[World War II]] ...ever mounted on any warship. They were actually 46&nbsp;cm (18.1&nbsp;in) guns, but were designated 40&nbsp;cm in an effort to hide their true size.
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  • |wars= World War I, World War II '''5"/51 caliber guns''' (spoken "five-inch-fifty-one-caliber") formed the main battery of the fi
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  • |era=[[World War I]] - [[World War II]] |wars= [[World War II]]
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  • |era=[[World War II]] |wars= [[World War II]]
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  • ...r the war some 52-Ks were refitted for peaceful purposes as anti-avalanche guns in a mountainous terrain. ...mm air defense gun KS-19|100]] and [[130 mm air defense gun KS-30|130 mm]] guns.
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  • |wars=[[World War II]] ...e taken into [[Wehrmacht]] service as the ''9&nbsp;cm Flak M 12(t)''. Some guns were reportedly captured in [[Yugoslavia]] and the [[Soviet Union]] as well
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  • |image=[[File:HMS Vanguard aft guns USNHC NH 52619.jpg|300px]] |caption=Aft Mk XI guns of [[HMS Vanguard (1909)|HMS ''Vanguard'']]
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  • |wars=[[World War I]] ....jpg|thumb|left|<center>[[HMS Agamemnon (1906)|HMS ''Agamemnon'']] has her guns replaced during a refit at Malta in May-June 1915</center>]]
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  • |name= Ordnance BL 12 inch gun Mk I - VII |image=[[Image:HMS Conqueror Forecastle Guns Clipped300px.jpg|300px]]
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  • ...tion=Crewmen of [[HMS Goliath (1898)|HMS ''Goliath'']] photographed before guns |wars=[[World War I]]
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  • |caption=Aft guns of [[HMS Emperor of India (1913)|HMS ''Emperor of India'']] |wars=[[World War I]]<br>[[World War II]]
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  • ...] were also mounted as [[coastal artillery]] near [[Dover]]. A total of 78 guns were made. **2 gun turret Mark I (900.5 Metric tonnes, up to 40 degree elevation)
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