12-inch/50 Vickers (305 mm)
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[hide]Description
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Vehicles equipped with this weapon
General info
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Available ammunition
| Penetration statistics | |||||||
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| Ammunition | Type of warhead |
Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm) | |||||
| 1,000 m | 2,500 m | 5,000 m | 7,500 m | 10,000 m | 15,000 m | ||
| 12-inch/50 HE | HE | 69 | 69 | 69 | 69 | 69 | 69 |
| 12-inch/50 APC | APC | 575 | 501 | 399 | 320 | 260 | 187 |
| Shell details | ||||||||||||
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| Ammunition | Type of warhead |
Velocity (m/s) |
Projectile mass (kg) |
Fuse delay (s) |
Fuse sensitivity (mm) |
Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (kg) |
Ricochet | |||||
| 0% | 50% | 100% | ||||||||||
| 12-inch/50 HE | HE | 915 | 400.06 | 0 | 0.1 | 37.82 | 79° | 80° | 81° | |||
| 12-inch/50 APC | APC | 915 | 400.06 | 0.035 | 17 | 13.64 | 48° | 63° | 71° | |||
Comparison with analogues
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Usage in battles
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Pros and cons
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History
The turn of the 20th century marked an international naval arms race for nations around the world. When the idea of an all-big-gun battleship was published in the magazine Jane's Fighting Ships in 1906, Japan was the first nation to lay down a ship to such specifications, but the finished Satsuma-class battleships were instead built with significant 10-inch gun batteries due to an economic depression after the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese War. The following Kawachi-class ships, Kawachi and Settsu, were built with similar plans as an all-big-gun battleship, but in 1908, the Imperial Japanese Navy learned of the 12 inch/50 Mark XI guns being built by the Royal Navy and decided to use similar guns on these ships. Designed jointly by Vickers and Armstrong, the manufacturing of these guns was handled by their subsidiary Nihon Seiko Si (Japanese Steelworks). Japan was still in a depression at the time of construction so only the fore and aft super-firing turret were equipped with these guns, while the shorter barrelled 12-inch/45 Vickers was mounted amidships. The 12-inch/50-calibre Vickers was only used on the Kawachi class as the following Fuso class were armed with 36 cm/45 Type 41 to counter the 14-inch guns of the New York class. The Kawachi was destroyed in a magazine detonation in 1918 in Tokoyama Bay, Yamaguchi Prefecture while the Settsu would be scrapped following the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty due to the limitations on battleship tonnage. The 12-inch/50-calibre (by this point re-designated the 30 cm/50 41st Year Type) guns were reassigned to the Imperial Japanese Army and mounted as coastal defense guns with hydraulic rammers at Nagasaki and Tsushima Island.
Media
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See also
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External links
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