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...all|destroyer escort}} built for the [[United States Navy]] during [[World War II]]. She served in the [[Atlantic Ocean]] and the [[Pacific Ocean]] and pr ==World War II North Atlantic operations==

...than Wainwright, Jr.]] <br/>• [[Richard Wainwright (naval officer, Civil War)|Richard Wainwright]] ...Heritage Command]] | url = http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/w1/wainwright-i.htm | title = Wainwright | short = on | accessdate = 25 April 2009 }}</ref>

...or the [[United States Navy]] prior to the American entry into [[World War I]]. The ship was the second U.S. Navy vessel named in honor of both [[David ...{{convert|1090|LT|MT}}. She was armed with four {{convert|4|in|cm|adj=on}} guns and had eight {{convert|21|in|mm|adj=on}} [[torpedo tube]]s. ''Porter'' was

[[Image:2001gun88mmwiki.jpg|thumb|88 mm display at Imperial War Museum Duxford, 2001]] ...s of the war. Developments of the original models led to a wide variety of guns.

|wars= Second World War ...[autocannon]] designed by the French firm of Hotchkiss. It served in World War II with French, Japanese and other nations' forces. Other than the designer

|caption= A 120 mm M1 anti-aircraft gun at [[United States Army Ordnance Museum|US Army Ordnance Museum]]. |type= [[Anti-aircraft warfare|Anti-aircraft gun]]

|wars= [[Second World War]] ...and manufactured by [[Hotchkiss et Cie]] from the late 1920s until [[World War II]] where it saw service with various nation's forces, including Japan whe

|wars=[[Second World War]] ...rrier]]s.<ref name="Campbell"/> The typical installation was ten 20 cm/50 guns; although [[Tone class cruiser|''Tone'']] class cruisers carried eight whil

|type= Anti-aircraft Naval Gun |wars= World War I

|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

...[[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]]

|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'

...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]]

|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.

|wars= World War I, World War II '''5"/51 caliber guns''' (spoken "five-inch-fifty-one-caliber") formed the main battery of the fi

|era=[[World War I]] - [[World War II]] |wars= [[World War II]]

|image= [[Image:7.5 cm L45 M32 anti-aircraft gun.jpg|300px]] |era=[[World War II]]

...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.

|type=[[anti-aircraft gun]] |wars=[[World War II]]

| name = 18 inch Mark I | wars = [[World War I]]

...bres]])<ref name=Handbook1913>HANDBOOK for the 4" Mark VII. and VIII. B.L. Guns 1913</ref> ...ordite MD size 16 propellant. HANDBOOK for the 4" Mark VII. and VIII. B.L. Guns 1913.</ref>

...bres]])<ref name=Handbook1913>HANDBOOK for the 4" Mark VII. and VIII. B.L. Guns 1913</ref> ...ordite MD size 16 propellant. HANDBOOK for the 4" Mark VII. and VIII. B.L. Guns 1913.</ref>

...European armies during [[World War II]], mainly at the early stage of the war. ...its returning to their homeland brought with them a few Swedish model 1938 guns.

...r]], [[South African Border War]], [[Falklands War]], [[Gulf War]], [[Iraq War]] ...ems during [[World War II]], used by most of the western [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] as well as various other forces. It is often referred to simply

|image=[[Image:Breda 20-65 anti-aircraft gun in Beijing.jpg|300px]] |caption=A 20/65 Breda anti-aircraft gun in Beijing. This example does not have the predictor sight mounted or t

...dello 34''' was an [[Italy|Italian]] anti-aircraft gun used during [[World War II]]. The designation means it had a caliber of 75 mm, the barrel was 46 ca In German use it was renamed '''7.5-cm Flak 264/3(i)'''.

...rcraft guns to see service during [[World War II]]. It was used both in an anti-aircraft role and as an anti-tank gun. The designation "90/53" meant that the gun ha ...ducing these quantities and by the end of production in July 1943 only 539 guns had been delivered, including 48 converted for use on the [[Semovente 90/53

...e setting of the [[anti-aircraft guns]], to hit the target. The HACS marks I through IV depended upon the control officer inputting to the computer<ref> ...rent speed for a short interval of time, equal to the loading cycle of the guns, in advance of the actual time and feed this to the HACS computer allowing

|caption=HS.404 in the TCM-20 twin anti-aircraft configuration, displayed at the Israeli Air Force Museum. |wars=World War II

...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 | 20 mm || [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon]] || {{CHE}} || World War II

...r on Terror]] ([[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan]], [[Iraq War|Iraq]]) ...Deuce" is a [[heavy machine gun]] designed towards the end of [[World War I]] by [[John Browning]]. It is very similar in design to John Browning's ear

|wars=[[World War II]] |design_date=[[World War I]]

{{About|the World War II tank and anti-tank gun|the anti-aircraft "pom-pom" autocannon|QF 2 pounder naval gun}} |wars=World War II

|type=[[Naval gun]], [[Anti-aircraft gun]] |variants=Mk I Mk II

...culty in aiming the mounting due to the smoke and vibration created by the guns. It was, therefore, essential to aim the mount from a remote location, usin ==The Pom-Pom Director Mark I - III==

...[Boxer Rebellion]]<br>[[Russo-Japanese War]]<br>[[World War I]]<br>[[World War II]] ...ritish service in 1902, using {{convert|1|lb|15|oz|kg|abbr=on}} cordite Mk I size 15 propellant (Text Book of Gunnery 1902); {{convert|2258|ft/s|m/s|abb

|name= QF 1 pdr Mark I & II ("pom-pom") |caption= Mk II dated 1903 at the Imperial War Museum, London

{{about|the anti-aircraft autocannon|the World War II anti-tank gun|Ordnance QF 2 pounder}} |wars=[[World War I]]<br>[[World War II]]

|name= QF 3.7-in Heavy Anti-aircraft Gun |caption= 3.7 inch Anti-Aircraft Gun on display at the [[United States Army Ordnance Museum|U.S. Army Ordnan

|name=QF 3 inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun |caption=Egyptian gun captured by Israel in the 1956 war.

|type=Naval gun<br>Coast-defence gun<br>Anti-aircraft gun ...t was also used ashore as a coast defence gun and later occasionally as an anti-aircraft gun.

...he early 45-[[Caliber#Caliber as measurement of length|calibre]] family of guns up to the 1970s. For the current unrelated 55-calibre Royal Navy gun, see [ Like all British nominally 4.5&nbsp;inch naval guns, the QF Mk I has an actual calibre of 4.45&nbsp;inches (113&nbsp;mm)<ref>Jane's Ammuniti

|name=QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I - IV |wars=[[Second Boer War]]<br>[[World War I]]

|wars=[[World War I]]<br>[[World War II]] ...d not adopt the gun, but several were adopted by the army as coast defence guns around the United Kingdom from 1900 onwards<ref Name=Hogg&Thurston1972Page1

|caption=[[British ordnance terms#HA|HA]] gun in action during [[World War II]] |type= [[Naval gun]]<br>Heavy [[anti-aircraft gun]]<br>[[Coastal artillery|Coastal defence gun]]

| name = QF 5.25 inch Mark I | image = [[Image:HMS Sirius guns.jpg|300px]]

|wars= [[Russo-Japanese War]]<br>[[World War I]] ...as the '''[[List of British ordnance terms#QF|QF]] 6 inch MK I, II, III''' guns.

{{otheruses4|the 1880s Hotchkiss gun|the World War II anti-tank and Molins Class M gun|Ordnance QF 6 pounder}} ...r I]]<br>[[Russian Civil War]],<br>[[Second Sino-Japanese War]]<br>[[World War II]]<br>[[Cod Wars]]

...destroyer escorts or escort carriers) employed GFCS for 5 inch and larger guns, up to battleships such as the [[Armament of the Iowa class battleship|USS For the US, the brains were first provided by the [[Mark I Fire Control Computer|Mark 1A Fire Control Computer]] which was an electro-

|type= [[Anti-aircraft gun]] |used_by=[[Image:War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.svg|22x20px|border]][[Imperial Japanese

|type= [[Anti-aircraft gun]] |used_by=[[Image:War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.svg|22x20px|border]] [[Imperial Japanese

|type= [[Anti-aircraft gun]] |used_by=[[Image:War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.svg|22x20px|border]] [[Imperial Japanese

...ting, bombing and gunnery roles throughout the [[World War II|Second World War]]. As a consequence of the outbreak of war, many thousands of Oxfords would be ordered by Britain and its allies, incl

...defects in offspring of persons exposed to DU."<ref name="Hindin" /> The [[World Health Organization]] states that no consistent risk of reproductive, deve |author= World Health Organization

...ens of thousands of blacks moved to the North during and after [[World War I]] in the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]], unsettling ...with the arming of blacks to raise fears among whites of an impending race war in the South.

...quote> According to some analysts, in [[History of Germany since 1945|post-war Germany]], the prohibition of the [[Communist Party of Germany|Communist Pa ...ist, you must take it... the policeman arrested me in the name of the Law, I struck him in the name of Liberty".

|area = [[World|Global]] ...slam|Sunni]] [[Muslim]] movement calling for global [[Jihad]]. Most of the world considers it a [[terrorist]] organization.<ref>1st paragraph, p. x, ''The D

| citizenship = [[United Kingdom|British]]/ [[Pakistan]]i ...ززم بغع}}), born 1968, is a [[United Kingdom|British]]/ [[Pakistan]]i [[Muslim]] who was held in [[extrajudicial detention]] in the [[Bagram Thea

...other air forces before, during, and after the [[World War II|Second World War]]. ...lying boat]]s. However, by the outbreak of the [[World War II|Second World War]], the Anson was soon found to have become obsolete in front line combat ro

...l Air Force]] and [[Fleet Air Arm]] during the [[World War II|Second World War]]. It went through a number of variants according to engine availability an ...r entered service just before the start of the war, and eventually 900 Mk. I and Mk. IA Masters were built. This total included 26 built as the '''M.24