A US Navy destroyer operating in the Red Sea last year used its five-inch deck gun to shoot a Houthi drone out of the sky, a top commander revealed this week. The American destroyer, USS Stockdale ...

The SIG Sauer P226, a 9mm DA/SA pistol, became the trusted sidearm of US Navy SEALs (as the Mk.25) for over thirty years ...

In mid-2018, a US destroyer fired 20 hypervelocity projectiles (HVP) from a standard Mk 45 5-inch deck gun. The Hypervelocity projectiles will make the guns effective and low-cost weapons against ...

US Navy Photo SAN DIEGO — Sailors with USS Stockdale (DDG-106) used the destroyer’s five-inch gun to shoot down a Houthi uncrewed aerial vehicle, the deputy commander of Central Command said ...

US Navy Photo Last summer USS Dewey (DDG-105) fired 20 hyper velocity projectiles (HVP) from a standard Mk 45 5-inch deck gun in a quiet experiment that’s set to add new utility to the weapon ...

used their destroyer’s five-inch mounted gun to take down a Houthi uncrewed aerial vehicle at the tail end of 2024. As described by Vice Adm. Brad Cooper at an event co-hosted by the U.S. Naval ...

Such guns use neither explosives ... The high velocity projectile is being adapted for Navy 5-Inch; Navy, Marine Corps, and Army 155-mm systems; and future electromagnetic (EM) railguns. BAE has been ...

These could have been taken out by Navy ships 50 miles off ... mind when it came to turning their 5 inch guns into a precision guided munition launcher. The US Navy is not the only customer ...