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Property	Value
rdf:type	Weapon
rdfs:label	3"/23 caliber gun
rdfs:comment	The 3"/23 caliber gun (spoken "three-inch-twenty-three-caliber") was the standard anti-aircraft gun for United States destroyers through World War I and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 23 calibers long (barrel length is 3" x 23 = 69" or 1.75 meters.)
owl:sameAs	dbr:3%22/23_caliber_gun
dcterms:subject	dbkwik:resource/TyKeX3dIFz-UpGx0GQminQ== World War II naval weapons Naval anti-aircraft guns dbkwik:resource/9b6hrehjI1LyXmLvD-Gtog==
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part length	bore
Origin	United States
Name	3
is artillery	"yes"
Type	Anti-aircraft Naval Gun
Caption	A 3"/23-caliber gun being fired aboard the United States Navy submarine chaser sometime beyween 1918 and 1920.
Wars	World War I
Used by	US Navy
Elevation	75
abstract	The 3"/23 caliber gun (spoken "three-inch-twenty-three-caliber") was the standard anti-aircraft gun for United States destroyers through World War I and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 23 calibers long (barrel length is 3" x 23 = 69" or 1.75 meters.)