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Commander describes the moment a US Navy destroyer blasted an enemy drone out of the sky with a 5-inch deck gun
"But there's a lot of high-fives when you shoot something down with a gun, kind of World War II-style." The MK-45 is a five-inch artillery gun mounted to the deck of a warship. It is one of many ...
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An Arleigh-Burke Destroyer Shot Down Houthi Drones Using a 5-inch Gun
“There’s a lot of high-fives when you shoot something down with a gun, kind of World War II-style ... used their destroyer’s five-inch mounted gun to take down a Houthi uncrewed aerial ...
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Gun Timeline
Various guns were used, until a true dueling pistol was officially standardized in 1777, as "a 9 or 10 inch barreled ... 1854-56 - The Crimean War. The last war to use only muzzle-loaded guns.