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Re: Movie about the Yamato
Posted by: walter schmidt ()
Date: October 14, 2005 04:07AM

I believe I know the answer. Multiply the bore times the factor. The 18.1 inch rifles had a barrel length of 45 times their bore, hence a barrel length of 814.5" (67.8) feet. The USN used this nomenclature, as an example, a 5"X54 had a barrel length of 270" (22.5) feet.

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