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BAE awarded $70 million Navy contract to overhaul Mk 45 guns
The company will extend the barrel of the Mk 45, strengthen the gun mounts and incorporate a fully digital control system.
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The U.S. Navy’s Most Popular Gun System Is Getting an Upgrade
The gun was first deployed in 1971 as the Mk 45 Mod 0, and has been updated in the more than five decades since.
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BAE Systems wins US Navy contract for Mk 45 naval gun upgrades
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, ...
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The Arleigh Burke Destroyer’s Mk 45 Cannon Has a New Role: Drone Defense
Anyone who might have questioned why the U.S. Navy continues to arm the warships ... It likely wouldn’t be accurate to suggest the Mk 45 five-inch gun was a weapon of last resort when it was ...
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The Navy’s Next-Gen Destroyer Is Missing Something Important: A Gun
Yet the guns hadn’t totally disappeared from the picture. The U.S. Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers are armed with the Mk 45 five-inch 54/62 caliber guns ...
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Commander describes the moment a US Navy destroyer blasted an enemy drone out of the sky with a 5-inch deck gun
USS Stockdale destroyed the Houthi drone during a complex attack on American forces in November.