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Naval gun
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Naval artillery
Naval artillery
is
artillery
mounted on a
warship
, originally used only for
naval warfare
, later also for
naval gunfire support
against targets on land, and for
anti-aircraft
use. The term generally refers to tube-launched projectile-firing weapons and excludes self-propelled projectiles like
torpedoes
and
rockets
, and those simply dropped overboard like
depth charges
and
naval mines
.
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