Updated 22 January 2012

Greasing a gun mount on USS Hull DD-945
Note the monobloc gun barrel
U.S. Navy Photograph No. 1166035

Japanese Haruna Class Destroyer in action
Note that the AA fire-control domes have been removed and the basket for catching cartidge cases
Photograph courtesy of the JMSDF

USS Coontz DDG-40 in 1986
Note that the AA fire-control dome has been removed
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 97681-KN

Japanese Helicopter-Destroyer Kurama (DDH-144) leaving Pearl Harbor on 10 November 2011
U.S. Navy Photograph No. 111110-N-WP746-088

5"/54 (12.7 cm) Mark 42 Mounting on USS Turner Joy DD-951 in April 1968
Note the cartridge case ejection chute below the gun barrel
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 98261

USS Turner Joy DD-951 firing off Vietnam in June 1968
Note the cartridge case being ejected from front of mount
U.S. Navy Photograph No. 1133001

5"/54 Mark 42 aboard USS Badger (FF-1071) in July 1986
Note that this later mod did not have the AA control dome
U.S. Navy Photograph No. DN-ST-87-03040

5" (12.7cm) round
Note the grommet protecting the driving band and that the round is boat-tailed
U.S. Navy Photograph No. 1143901

Diagram of 5"/54 (12.7 cm) Mark 42 Mod 9
Sketch copyrighted by United Defense

Mark 58 RAP
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Laser-guided 5" (12.7 cm) Paveway projectile developed in the 1970s at Dahlgren Laboratory, Virginia

11 November 2008 - Benchmark
15 June 2010 - Added picture of RAP
22 January 2012 - Added picture of Kurama