The company will extend the barrel of the Mk 45, strengthen the gun mounts and incorporate a fully digital control system.

American missiles were used to engage most of the enemy targets, but the destroyer was forced to employ the five-inch gun against one of the drones.

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

The destroyer Rafael Peralta fires its Mark 45 5-inch light-weight gun during a live-fire exercise while operating in the Philippine Sea in January 2023. (MC1 Greg Johnson/U.S. Navy) ...

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