DRDO is extending the technology to private industry, which has the capacity to mass produce the weapons systems required by ...

The gun was first deployed in 1971 as the Mk 45 Mod 0, and has been updated in the more than five decades since.

Soon after the end of the Second World War the newly formed United States Air Force identified a need for an improved gun system for its ... as an aircraft mounted weapon. In 1956 the gun was ...

50 caliber machine gun; HYDRA 70 rockets ... and weapons and cockpit integration systems. The mast-mounted sight (MMS) houses a thermal imaging system, low-light television, laser rangefinder ...

Back in 2022, the upcoming destroyer was equipped with a 5-inch Mark 45 Mod 4 main gun forward of the bow-mounted 32-cell ark 41 Vertical Launch System cells. While this original design was purely ...