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Thursday, June 05, 2014

Navy seeks guided deck-gun shell

5-inch deck gunThe Navy wants to arm its cruisers and destroyers with shells-turned-missiles that would bring naval gunnery and the 5-inch deck gun into the age of the smart bomb.

The to-be-developed 5-inch shell should have twice the range of current shells used against land targets, ships and fast boats, according to a May 9 request for information.

A spokesman for Naval Sea Systems Command stressed this was an opening salvo see what’s possible — not the start of a procurement process for such a shell.

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