USA 8"/55 (20.3 cm) Mark 71 (original) (raw)

United States of America
8"/55 (20.3 cm) Mark 71
Pictures

Updated 18 January 2008

Firing trials aboard USS Hull DD-945
USN picture courtesy of Leo Fischer

Cleaning the gun mount in September 1975
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 98315

Side view of USS Hull in April 1975 showing the relative sizes between the bow 8"/55 (20.3 cm) and the stern 5"/54 (12.7 cm) guns
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 98308

Mark 71 General Dimensions
Image courtesy of Leo Fischer

Laser-guided 8" (20.3 cm) Paveway or CLGP developed at Dahlgren Laboratory, Virginia, in the 1970s
USS Hull made 5 out of 5 hits on a moored ex-destroyer using these projectiles