Mark 56 Gun Fire Control System (Mk.56 GFCS) is a gun fire-control system made up of AN/SPG-35 radar tracker and the Mark 42 ballistic computer. The directional...
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Ship gun fire-control systems (GFCS) are analogue fire-control systems that were used aboard naval warships prior to modern electronic computerized systems...
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Mark 63 Gun Fire Control System (Mk.63 GFCS) is a gun fire-control system made up of AN/SPG-34 radar tracker and the Mark 29 gun sight. They were usually...
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early main battery fire control consisted of the Fire Control Tower, two Mark 38 Gun Fire Control Systems (GFCS), and fire control equipment located in...
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formally the Light Machine Gun, 5.56 mm, M249, is the United States Armed Forces adaptation of the Belgian FN Minimi, a light machine gun manufactured by FN Herstal...
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Director (military) (redirect from Fire-control director)
gun produced by Bell Labs M9B1 M10 gun director electrical for use with 120 mm M1 gun Mark 1 MK 51 Fire Control System Mark 56 Mark 57 Mark 58 Mark 59...
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up-to-date Mark 160 Fire Control System was used to guide the fire of the Iowa-class battleship Mark 7 guns. The Mark 7 gun was a built-up gun and was constructed...
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either the Mk 86 Gun Fire Control System or the Mk 34 Gun Weapon System. Since before World War II, 5 inches (127 mm) has been the standard gun caliber for...
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Stoner 63 (redirect from Mark 23 machine gun)
The Stoner 63 is a 5.56×45mm NATO modular weapon system. Using a variety of modular components, it can be configured as an assault rifle, carbine, top-fed...
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AN/SPG-34 Tracking radar for Mark 63 Gun Fire Control System. AN/SPG-35 Tracking radar for Mark 56 Gun Fire Control System. AN/SPG-49 Illumination and...
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Gun laws and policies, collectively referred to as firearms regulation or gun control, regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification...
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The 2-pounder gun, officially the QF 2-pounder (QF denoting "quick firing") and universally known as the pom-pom, was a 40 mm (1.6 in) British autocannon...
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Company of the Machine Gun Corps fired their ten Vickers guns to deliver sustained fire for twelve hours. Using 100 barrels, they fired a million rounds without...
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anti-aircraft cannons. This was eventually developed fully as the Mark 56 Gun Fire Control System, which was mounted in the final stages of the war and was very...
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Light Support Weapon firing the 5.56×45mm NATO round, leaving the Bren gun in use only as a pintle mount on some vehicles. The Bren gun was manufactured by...
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The Mark 48, or Mk 48, is a belt-fed general-purpose machine gun developed and manufactured by Fabrique Nationale Manufacturing Inc., a division of FN...
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CROWS (redirect from Common Remotely Operated Weapon System)
12.7 mm M2 .50 Caliber Machine Gun, 7.62 mm M240B Machine Gun, and 5.56 mm M249 Squad Automatic Weapon. The system is composed of two parts: the mount...
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Ultimax 100 (category 5.56×45mm NATO machine guns)
1989) to test fire the gun, elaborated: This article began by praising the Ultimax for its ease of control, which allows accurate fire. A comment to the...
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of firing a 3.5 in × 23.6 in (90 mm × 600 mm) shell 62,474 ft (19,042 m) horizontally, or a maximum altitude of 43,500 ft (13,300 m). The 90 mm gun was...
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magazine spigot on the body of the gun. Mark II*. An improved Mk II with an increased rate of fire introduced in 1918. Mark III. A further upgrade of the Mk...
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Seaslug (missile) (section Mark 1 (GWS.1))
aircraft at long range. This was part of the LRS.1 fire-control system that allowed large dual-purpose guns to attack bombers at long range. A contemporary...
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with Mark 8 fire control radar to direct the 16-inch guns and a quartet of Mk 37 gun fire control systems with Mark 12 fire control radar and Mark 22 height...
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infantry. The initial Fire-control system (FCS) was the Marconi FV/GCE Mk 4. A .50-inch (12.7 mm) ranging gun was mounted above the main gun (with 300 rounds...
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Halifax-class frigate (section Control systems)
12.7 mm (0.50 in) machine guns. As built, the decoy system comprises two BAE Systems Shield Mark 2 decoy launchers which fire chaff to 2 kilometres (1...
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Anti-aircraft warfare (redirect from Anti-aircraft gun)
machine-guns or fast cannons, which can often be deadly to low-flying aircraft if linked to a radar-directed fire-control system radar-controlled cannon...
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The 16"/45-caliber Mark 6 gun is a naval gun designed in 1936 by the United States Navy for their Treaty battleships. It was introduced in 1941 aboard...
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United States. Advocates of gun control support increasingly restrictive regulations on gun ownership, while proponents of gun rights oppose such restrictions...
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G3 battlecruiser (section Fire-control)
288 m) at 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph). The main guns of the G3 battlecruisers could be controlled from any of the three director-control towers (DCT). The...
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was also used for naval gunnery, such as the Mark 56 Gun Fire Control System and sonar fire-control systems. Boat trailer, which uses this mechanism to...
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