3-inch/23-caliber gun
The 3"/23 caliber gun (spoken "three-inch-twenty-three-caliber") was the standard anti-aircraft gun for United States destroyers through World War I and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 23 calibers long (barrel length is 3" x 23 = 69" or 1.75 meters.)
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3-inch/23-caliber gun
The 3"/23 caliber gun (spoken "three-inch-twenty-three-caliber") was the standard anti-aircraft gun for United States destroyers through World War I and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 23 calibers long (barrel length is 3" x 23 = 69" or 1.75 meters.)
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The 3"/23 caliber gun (spoken ...... 3" x 23 = 69" or 1.75 meters.)
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A 3"/23-caliber gun being fire ...... ometime between 1918 and 1920.
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*Mark 9:
*Mark 14:
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*Bethlehem Steel
*Driggs-Schroeder
*Poole Engineering and Machine Company
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United States
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*Mark 9: bore
*Mark 14: bore
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* at 45.3° elevation
* at 45° elevation
* at 75° elevation
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* Naval gun
* Anti-aircraft gun
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Mark 9, 13, and 14
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*Mark 9:
*Mark 13:
*Mark 14 Mod 0:
*Mark 14 Mod 1:
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The 3"/23 caliber gun (spoken ...... 3" x 23 = 69" or 1.75 meters.)
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3-inch/23-caliber gun
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3"/23 caliber gun
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