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Parent topics
- Battleship [r]: A heavily-armored, warship optimized for fighting other warships using large-caliber guns; certain armor requirements differentiated from cruisers; obsolete by end of World War II. [e]
- Cannon [r]: Sizable crew-served weapons, which fire projectiles through a tube called a barrel. [e]
- Naval guns and gunnery [r]: Artillery weapons on ships, and techniques and devices for aiming them. [e]
Subtopics
- South Dakota-class [r]: A four-ship class of 35,000 ton U.S. Navy battleship begun just before the Second World War; more compact and better protected than the preceding North Carolina-class, but had the same main battery of nine 16"-45 caliber MK 6 naval guns in triple turrets [e]
- North Carolina-class [r]: A two-ship class of U.S. Navy battleships, originally to Treaty requirements and but upgunned to the 16"-45 caliber MK 6 naval gun in 1936; better protected and more seaworthy than following South Dakota-class but had no flagship facilities [e]
- 16"-50 caliber MK 7 naval gun [r]: Main battery guns of the battleships of the U.S. Navy's Iowa-class [e]
- Caliber [r]: Several measures used to describe the size of rifles, pistols and artillery [e]