5"/38 caliber gun — Infobox Weapon name= 5 /38 Caliber Gun caption= Two Mk 30 single enclosed base ring mounts on a Fletcher class destroyer. origin= United States type= Deck Gun is artillery=yes service= 1934 used by= US Navy, US Coast Guard, Royal Navy, Danish… … Wikipedia
3"/50 caliber gun — Infobox Weapon name= 3 Inch / 50 Cal Gun (Mk 22) caption= origin= United States type= Dual Purpose Naval Gun is ranged= is bladed= is explosive= is artillery= yes is vehicle= is UK= service= used by= US Navy wars= designer= design date=… … Wikipedia
3"/23 caliber gun — The 3 /23 caliber gun (spoken three inch twenty three caliber ) was the standard anti aircraft gun for United States destroyers through World War I and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches… … Wikipedia
4"/50 caliber gun — The 4 /50 caliber Mark 9 gun (spoken four inch fifty caliber ) was the standard low angle, quick firing gun for United States destroyers through World War I and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 4 … Wikipedia
5"/25 caliber gun — The 5 /25 caliber gun (spoken five inch twenty five caliber ) was the standard anti aircraft gun for United States Washington Naval Treaty cruisers. The gun was also mounted on pre World War II battleships and aircraft carriers until replaced by… … Wikipedia
5"/51 caliber gun — 5 /51 caliber guns (spoken five inch fifty one caliber ) formed the secondary batteries of United States Navy battleships built from 1907 through the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 5 inches (127… … Wikipedia
14"/45 caliber gun — The 14 /45 caliber gun, known initially as the Mark 1, 2, 3, and 5, and later as the Mark 8, 9, 10, and 12, were the first 14 inch guns to be employed with the United States Navy. They were installed aboard the United States Navy s New York ,… … Wikipedia
Caliber — The term caliber or calibre designates the interior diameter of a tube or the exterior diameter of a wire or rod. It comes from the French calibre , itself from qālib (قالب), Arabic word for mold , itself from kalamoys , Greek word for wooden… … Wikipedia
caliber — (cal) 1. a unit used to express the bore of a gun. (The bore is the inside diameter of the gun barrel.) Traditionally, the diameter was stated in inches, so that .22 caliber referred to a pistol having a bore of 0.22 inches (5.588 mm). This… … Dictionary of units of measurement
Gun violence in the United States — is associated with the majority of homicides and over half the suicides.cite web |url=http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm |title=Self inflicted Injury/Suicide |publisher=National Center for Health Statistics |accessdate=2006 11 06] cite… … Wikipedia
