14-inch/50-caliber gun
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The 14"/50 caliber gun was a naval gun mounted on New Mexico and Tennessee-class battleships. These ships also featured the first "three-gun" turrets, meaning that each gun in each turret could be "in
New Mexico-class battleship USS Idaho (BB-42) in 1920, showing six 14"/50 caliber guns
The 14"/50 caliber guns on USS Tennessee (BB-43) fire in support of the invasion of Okinawa
New Mexico-class battleship
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The New Mexico class was a class of three dreadnought battleships built for the United States Navy in the late 1910s. The class comprised three ships: New Mexico, the lead ship, Mississippi, and Idaho
14-inch/50-caliber gun
…The 14"/50 caliber gun was a naval gun mounted on New Mexico and Tennessee-class battleships. These ships also featured the first "three-gun" turrets, meaning that each gun in each turret could be "individually…
Mississippi, c. 1918
USS Arizona, the second member of the Pennsylvania class, which provided the basis for the New Mexico class
Colorized photograph of Mississippi; note the strong resemblance to Arizona
Idaho during a naval review in 1927