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Mk 16 naval gun
Country of Origin: USA
description
Mounted in a triple turret and carried only on the mothballed DES MOINES (CA-134) and SALEM (CA-139), the Mk 16 was the largest automatic naval gun ever made. It featured all-angle loading and used cased ammunition rather than the separate bag-and-shell loading common to such large guns.
Each DES MOINES-class cruiser carried three triple turrets.
The gun fired armor-piercing (AP) and high-capacity (HC) projectiles.
status
No longer in service.
Initial operational capability was in 1947....
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