The US Navy has contracted BAE Systems to upgrade Mk 45 5-inch naval gun systems, including the overhaul of existing systems, to the Mk 45 Mod 4 configuration. This modification, worth $23.5m ...

Last summer USS Dewey (DDG-105) fired 20 hyper velocity projectiles (HVP) from a standard Mk 45 5-inch deck gun in a quiet experiment that’s set to add new utility to the weapon found on almost ...

The MK-45 is a five-inch artillery gun mounted to the deck of a warship. It is one of many ways a vessel can protect itself, along with surface-to-air missiles, which have been the tool of choice ...

ENGLISH CHANNEL (March 27, 2019) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) fires its Mark 45 5-inch gun in the English Channel, March 27, 2019. Porter, forward-deployed to ...

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) 27,121 people ...

The USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) fires its Mk 45 5-inch gun as part of a live-fire exercise on Nov. 2, 2018. U.S. Navy photo by Senior Chief Intelligence Specialist Matt Bodenner/Released ...

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Stockdale and USS ... It likely wouldn’t be accurate to suggest the Mk 45 five-inch gun was a weapon of last resort when it was used to shoot down the ...

BAE Systems (Booth 613) is developing a hypervelocity projectile, or HVP, for the U.S. Navy’s Mark 45 5-inch gun as a counter-unmanned aerial system option to engage aerial targets. The Mk45 is ...

U.S. Navy combat ships equipped with 5-inch guns are about to get more lethal. Next fall, ATK will begin delivering the new Multi-Option Fuze, Navy, or MOFN, for ammunition fired from MK 45 weapon ...

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) The U.S. Navy ...