Advanced firepower will continue to play a critical role at sea as Sailors face advanced threats ...
USS Stockdale destroyed the Houthi drone during a complex attack on American forces in November.
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The U.S. Navy’s Most Popular Gun System Is Getting an UpgradeThe gun was first deployed in 1971 as the Mk 45 Mod 0, and has been updated in the more than five decades since.
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The Arleigh Burke Destroyer’s Mk 45 Cannon Has a New Role: Drone DefenseAmerican 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.
Sailors with USS Stockdale (DDG-106) used the destroyer’s five-inch gun to shoot down a Houthi uncrewed aerial vehicle, the ...
45 ACP. The gun is recoil operated and fitted with a 4.25” stainless steel barrel. It comes with a matte black steel slide and black polymer frame. As we’ve seen over the last decade ...
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