https://youtu.be/8I_xgqGehfEUSS Missouri firing her Big Guns. Video from USS Princeton steaming to Japan just before Desert Storm & Desert Shields 1st Shock ...

Ship gun fire-control systems (GFCS) are analogue fire-control systems that were used aboard naval warships prior to modern electronic computerized systems, to control targeting of guns against surface ships, aircraft, and shore targets, with either optical or radar sighting.

Superfiring armament is a naval military building technique in which two or more turrets are located one behind the other, with the rear turret located above ("super") the one in front so that it can fire over the first.

2024年2月2日 · A US warship’s destruction of an incoming Houthi missile in the Red Sea this week marks the first use in this conflict of an advanced weapons system dubbed the Navy’s “last line of defense.”

Dramatic footage released by the US military shows American warships launching a barrage of missiles at Iranian-backed Houthi targets in the Red Sea. The USS Gravely, USS Carney, and the USS...

2023年12月9日 · Carney shot down three drones in self-defense during the assault, the U.S. military said. It marked an escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to the Israel-Hamas war. The...

2024年1月25日 · Video and pictures from the latest test showed a countdown followed by the weapon's firing from the deck of an unnamed naval vessel—possibly a Rajput-class destroyer—at an undisclosed...

2023年1月17日 · During Desert Storm, a massive portion of America’s firepower came from two floating relics, battleships of another time and age that would have to be pulled off of mothballs to take part in the war.

Battleship USS Nevada fires her 14 inch guns at shore positions off Utah Beach, Normandy (Official U.S. Navy photograph). Nevada was a 10 gun ship, with twin turrets superimposed over triple turrets. Scanned and contributed by Mike Green.

Naval artillery is artillery mounted on a warship, originally used only for naval warfare and then subsequently used for more specialized roles in surface warfare such as naval gunfire support (NGFS) and anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) engagements.