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The 8"/55 caliber gun (spoken "eight-inch-fifty-five-caliber") formed the main battery of United States Navy heavy cruisers and two early aircraft carriers. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun barrel had an internal diameter of 8 inches (203 mm), and the barrel was 55 calibers long (barrel length is 8 inch × 55 = 440 inches ...
The BL 8-inch howitzer Mark I through to Mark V (1 to 5) [note 1] were a British improvisation developed early in the First World War to provide heavy artillery. It used shortened and bored-out barrels from various redundant naval 6-inch guns. It bore no relation to the later 8-inch howitzer of the First World War, the Vickers 8-inch Mark VI to ...
Mk VI: 10,745 yd (9,825 m) Mk VII & VIII: 12,300 yd (11,200 m) The BL 8-inch howitzer Marks VI, VII and VIII (6, 7 and 8) were a series of British artillery siege howitzers on mobile carriages of a new design introduced in World War I. [ note 1] They were designed by Vickers in Britain and produced by all four British artillery manufacturers ...
30° (initially), post-war 40°. Muzzle velocity. 2,840 ft/s (870 m/s) Effective firing range. 12.5 mi (20.1 km) (minimum) Maximum firing range. 20.24 mi (32.57 km) The 8-inch gun M1 was a 203 mm towed heavy gun developed in the United States. At 32,584 m (35,635 yd), it had the longest range of any US Army field artillery weapon in World War II.
The 5-inch/51 caliber gun was designed to engage destroyers, torpedo boats, and other surface targets. The 5"/51 gun entered service in 1911 as secondary armament on the Florida -class battleships, which mounted 16. The guns served well through World War I, but increased awareness of the need for anti-aircraft protection (especially following ...
Vietjet Aviation Joint Stock Company (Vietnamese: Công ty Cổ phần hàng không Vietjet), operating as VietJet Air or Vietjet, is a Vietnamese low-cost airline [3] based in Hanoi. It was the first privately owned airline to be established in Vietnam, being granted its initial approval to operate by the Vietnamese Minister of Finance in ...
The 8-inch Navy gun Mk.VI M3A2 on railway mount M1A1 was a World War II improved replacement for the World War I -era 8-inch (203 mm) M1888 gun and was used by the US Army's Coast Artillery Corps in US harbor defenses. The guns were also mounted in fixed emplacements on the barbette carriage M1A1. [1] These guns were US Navy surplus 8"/45 ...
Grand Theft Auto V is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the seventh main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series, following 2008's Grand Theft Auto IV, and the fifteenth instalment overall. Set within the fictional state of San Andreas, based on Southern California, the single-player ...