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The Arleigh Burke Destroyer’s Mk 45 Cannon Has a New Role: Drone Defense
American missiles were used to engage most of the enemy targets, but the destroyer was forced to employ the five-inch gun against one of the drones.
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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.” Since Hamas waged its October 7, 2023, massacre against Israel, Iran’s regional proxy groups have ...
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The Navy’s Next-Gen Destroyer Is Missing Something Important: A Gun
The U.S. Navy also sought to equip the Zumwalt-class destroyers with the 155mm Advanced Gun System, which proved to be a failure due to the high cost of the ammunition. Currently, the service’s ...
Commander describes the moment a US Navy destroyer blasted an enemy drone out of the sky with a 5-inch deck gun
A US Navy destroyer operating in the Red Sea last year used its five-inch deck gun to shoot a Houthi drone out of the sky, a top commander revealed this week. The American destroyer, USS Stockdale, ...
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DDG 51 Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer
Service: USN Armament: Standard Missile (SM-2MR); Vertical Launch ASROC missiles; Tomahawk; 6x MK-46 torpedoes; Close In Weapon System; 5-inch Mk45 Gun ... The destroyer's armament has greatly ...
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The destroyer Zumwalt's big guns don't have any ammo and the Navy may ditch them entirely because they don't even work right
The Zumwalt-class destroyer, the largest and most advanced ... naval gunfire support missions with secondary anti-ship and anti-aircraft mission capabilities. The Navy saw the ship operating ...
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DDG 1000 Elmo Zumwalt Class Destroyer
155mm Advanced Gun System Speed: 30 kts Crew: 158 (including air det) Aircraft: (2) MH60R or (1) MH60R and (3) VTUAVs Developed under the DD(X) destroyer program, the Zumwalt-class destroyer (DDG ...