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40 MM GUN SYSTEM
This information was provide by the USS WASHINGTON BB56
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Location of 40mm armament


 
 
 
 
 
 
Barrels Sixty (60)
Mounts Fifteen (15)
Projectile Weight 2 pounds
Muzzle Velocity 2,890 feet/second
Range Surface
Barrel Elevation = 42 deg.		 11,000 yards (6.25 miles) 
Anti Aircraft
Barrel Elevation = 90 deg.		 22,800 yards (12.9 miles) 
Firing Cycle 160 rounds per minute or 2.6 per second

 
 
 
 
 

The Quad 40's, loaded by ammunition
clips, could fire almost as fast as the
gun crews could load them, and were
used against aircraft which got inside
the range of the 5-inch guns.

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Weapons 16 Inch
Armament		 5"MK 38
System		 5"MK 42
System		 5"MK 45
System		 5"62 
System		 40MM 
System
76MM
System		 3"50
System		 MK 38
System		 20MM
System		 Standard
Missile		 Tomahawk
Missile
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