The gun was first deployed in 1971 as the Mk 45 Mod 0, and has been updated in the more than five decades since. With the final retirement of the United States Navy's Iowa-class battleships in the ...
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The U.S. Navy has approved Minneapolis-based United Defense Industries Inc.'s 57mm Mk 110 Naval Gun as the Close-In Gun System (CIGS) for the baseline design of the new DD(X) destroyer program, the ...