The company will extend the barrel of the Mk 45, strengthen the gun mounts and incorporate a fully digital control system.

American missiles were used to engage most of the enemy targets, but the destroyer was forced to employ the five-inch gun ...

The US Navy has contracted BAE Systems to upgrade Mk 45 5-inch naval gun systems, including the overhaul of existing systems, to the Mk 45 Mod 4 configuration. This modification, worth $23.5m, ...

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 ...

"But there's a lot of high-fives when you shoot something down with a gun, kind of World War II-style." The MK-45 is a five-inch artillery gun mounted to the deck of a warship. It is one of many ...

It likely wouldn’t be accurate to suggest the Mk 45 five-inch gun was a weapon of last resort when it was used to shoot down the Houthi drone. That’s because the vessel had another fall-back ...

The destroyer Rafael Peralta fires its Mark 45 5-inch light-weight gun during a live-fire exercise while operating in the Philippine Sea in January 2023. (MC1 Greg Johnson/U.S. Navy) ...