An 18th century British naval cannon has found its new home at the Maritime Museum in Madisonville after decades of sitting in storage. Maritime Museum Louisiana, the state’s only museum that focuses ...

At the National Civil War Naval Museum in Columbus, Georgia, we got the rare chance to fire an original Brooke rifled naval cannon built in 1865. Designed near the end of the Civil War, this massive ...

The Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to develop guided 57-millimeter cannon shells. The shells would equip guns on the Independence-class littoral combat ships and the new ...

November 20, 2024: The Oto Melara 76mm cannon is housed in a 7.5-ton turret and remotely controlled by the fire control officer on the ship's bridge. The cannon is water cooled and able to fire up to ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — The National Civil War Naval Museum held an Independence Day celebration including live music from the Bob Barr Community Band, guided tours, and a live cannon firing. The live ...

The gun was first deployed in 1971 as the Mk 45 Mod 0, and has been updated in the more than five decades since. With the final retirement of the United States Navy’s Iowa-class battleships in the ...

Summary: The Yamato, commissioned in 1941, was the largest battleship ever built, marking the peak of battleship engineering before becoming obsolete with the advent of aircraft carriers post-World ...