Pendleton, Superintendent of the naval gun factory at the Washington Navy Yard, that the Government build a large gun factory capable of producing the guns needed to arm all the ships now under ...

Eastman's six breech-loading cannon ... superintendent of government gun factories at Woolwich, and having been twice fired with a double charge of blank cartridgenamely, 20 Ibs.

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Military trials at Kure Naval Arsenal trialed a 510mm gun in ... the Installation of a breech only fitted to one gun, with ...

The guided-missile cruiser USS Hue City (CG 66) returns to its homeport of Naval Station Mayport after a six-month deployment. Hue City was deployed to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of ...

Naval Station Norfolk is the world's largest naval station, supporting 75 ships and 134 aircraft alongside 14 piers and 11 aircraft hangars. The base houses the largest concentration of U.S. Navy ...

However, visitors – or even those just driving down the road – will immediately be taken back by a pair of 14-inch naval guns that were on the USS Pennsylvania (BB-38), the lead vessel of a ...

His approval led to the purchase of 107,372 Spencer repeating carbines and rifles (of 144,500 made), and the Spencer became the principal repeating gun of the Civil War. 1861 - Breech loaded guns ...

He knew that the nine antiaircraft regiments of the regular army have only seven or eight guns apiece (twelve is par), that few of the ten antiaircraft regiments of the National Guard have ...

As vice president, Harris has mainly resided in Washington at the Naval Observatory, where she does not keep a second firearm. “I am a gun owner, and I own a gun for probably the reason a lot of ...

The UK has fitted its first Mk 45 Mod 4A weapon system onto the first-in-class Type 26 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) frigate ...