Naval Gunnery

This is the crew shooting the 5"/54 LWGM onboard a US NAVY Guided Missle Cruiser

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• gun
• military

[PinkOld]

@windsurfingfun 3.5"

There you would be wrong.

Forrest Sherman ships had the same caliber gun as that shown in this video: 5"/54 caliber.

It was an older gun, true, but still fired the same round.

Forrest Shermans had the MK42 mod 8.

However, they also had a few 3"/50 calibers, not 3.5".

FWIW, I served on one of the ships that were essentially stretched and modified Forrest Sherman destroyers: a Charles F. Adams guided missile destroyer.

And, yes, I was a Gunner's Mate Guns. ;)

[PinkOld]

@kirk2767 Eh, don't get so superiorist.

GMGs need the FCs, and the FCs need the GMGs.

If we're not there to load it, maintain it, and send the firing sequence to the lower hoist, cradle, and breech, nothing happens, no matter how much you squeeze the firing key.

Conversely, we can't get our rounds on target with any real degree of accuracy unless you guys are tracking the target and making the myriad ballistic corrections, then sending the firing signal.

We can still fire alone, though

[mamasgirl597]

@Tncx3 my mom was an FC im a GM. she has a different take on that, but thanks bro. That was a really sweet comment.

[Tncx3]

Gunner's Mates you got a love them they think this is sexy while the Fire Controlmen (FC) are the true shooters, because we make there guns land on target and we have our finger on the trigger. LOL All good video of you guys watching us shoot the gun.

[Cirux321]

GM = Gunners Mate.

[steamer97]

Zanderboy. Our country designed, built and sold these guns as well. The Australians utilized a higher rate of fire than we did, though it was the same gun. When My ship and three others teamed with the Air Force in the mining of Haiphong harbor in 1972, I am thankful that we had the rate of fire that we did. Overheating the barrel before the battles end is a bummer. As it was we ruined the barrel, but we didnt stop firing until the "hang fire" with the round cooking in the orange hot breech.

[laddiebuck12]

And I firmly believe that with the evolution of close-in defence systems, and the interesting developments in modern artillery, it will not be long, perhaps 50 years, before gunnery comes to the forefront again, land and sea. Guns are cheap, fast, and very difficult to defend against. Their disadvantages today relate mostly to limitations of range, accuracy, and explosive power. On land, mobile guns (in the form of tanks) are still the primary weapon.

[zeathan]

Cirux, what's GM stands for? thanks... Gun Man? joke!

[Bullzeye95]

There's a reason why the quick-firing 5" is still around while the bag guns have gone the way of the dinosaur. This is still a fine light gun, lethal to anything floating short of a battleship, and with the increases in ammunition technology getting better and more accurate all the time. Why knock it? The Bofors 40mm and the M2 .50-cal are still in service and work fine.

[Rserlo]

What a cute little baby gun.