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Naval Guns

Essay
 

 1. 

How is the caliber of guns with 3-inch barrels and larger expressed?
 

 2. 

On what does the effective range of a gun depend?
 

 3. 

What is the purpose of the RAP innovation in naval gun projectiles?
 

 4. 

What intermediate gun is carried by most post-World War II destroyers and cruisers?
 

 5. 

What is the close-in shipboard gun in wide use today by the United States Navy?
 

 6. 

What are the two principal components of a round of gun ammunition?
 

 7. 

What is the sequence of the propellant train, and what does each stage do?
 

 8. 

What are the three essential parts of a projectile?
 

 9. 

List the five kinds of special purpose projectiles.
 

 10. 

What  is a proximity-fuzed shell designed to do?
 



 
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