This allows for a small but meaningful reduction in RCS and the drawback is additional costs. Hence some very-stealthy warships use a design where the barrel of the gun is nested in a stealthy casing in front of it. This cylindrical barrel is also a reflector of radar waves and can contribute to the RCS of a ship. If you look at the pic of the gun with the stealthy cupola, you can notice that the barrel is exposed. It also has the side benefit of making the gun look better by giving it Non-Stealthy Gun Cupola (AK-176) Stealthy Gun Cupola (Oto Melara 76 mm) A 127 mm Oto Melara gun without its cupola In order to reduce the RCS, the cupola designs were given a multi-faceted design to deflect radar waves. It was determined that a traditional looking gun cupola with it’s rounded figure, ladders and other attachments reflected a lot of radar waves and increased the radar-cross section (RCS) of the ship. A cupola is the covering on top of a gun which protects the working elements from weather and water. Stealthy cupolas have defined how modern naval guns look. This article analyzes the various modern guns in service today, their capabilities, advantages and the technological innovations which have made guns popular again. However they had to find out the hard way that guns can never be entirely replaced by missiles and that both these systems complemented each other if used in the right manner. Many ships during the 1970’s were built with a missile-only armament. This led many analysts, strategists, navies and designers to consider the naval gun as an obsolete piece of weaponry which was unnecessary on a modern warship. The heavy-caliber guns started disappearing and were progressively replaced by missiles. Other major navies quickly adopted this technology and developed their own missiles or imported them. The anti-ship missile (AShM) was a fast, accurate and lethal weapon which had an incredible number of advantages over the large, slow firing and inaccurate naval guns of that time. This continued until the 1950s, when the anti-ship cruise missile entered service on board warships of the Soviet Union. In late 1908 she would be sold for scrap by the Japanese government.From the past several centuries, warships have been armed with a large number of guns for fighting other ships. When the ship returned from a voyage to Hawaii in 1887 parts were removed from her, although she was later utilised as floating battery during the First Sino-Japanese war. During her years as a training ship, Ryujo travelled to all corners of the globe, including New Zealand, Peru, Hawaii and Chile. She also ferried key government figures to Nagasaki during the Saga Rebellion.įollowing an incident where the Ryujo ran aground, she became a training ship for the Imperial Naval Academy. The ship escorted Foreign Minister Soejima Taneomi to China to demand recompense for the death of Japanese sailors. It remained the most powerful ship in the Japanese navy until the construction of the Fuso in 1878. She would arrive in Nagasaki, Japan in January 1870 where Glover sold the ship for profit to the Kumamoto Domain. The ship was launched on Maand completed four months later. The Jho Sho Maru, later renamed the Ryujo (Prancing Dragon), was paid for by Thomas Blake Glover and constructed at the shipyard of famous builders Hall, Russell & Company at a price of £42,302, which is worth just over £5 million in today's money. To sign up, simply enter your email address into this link here.Īnd if you aren't already, make sure you join the conversation over on our Facebook Groups and Aberdeen Live Instagram. The manually created newsletter arrives every day at around 4pm, giving you a round up of the most important stories we've covered that day.
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