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BOOM!

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Gotta love a 5-incher and high-speed photography. If you look closely, you will just see that loaf-of-bread sized 127mm shell pass over the bow.

160726-N-YS140-125 SOUTH CHINA SEA (July 26, 2016) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) conducts a firing exercise of the MK 45/5-inch lightweight gun at a surface target during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Singapore 2016, July 26. CARAT is a series of annual maritime exercises between the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and the armed forces of nine partner nations to include Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Timor-Leste. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class John Pearl/Released)

160726-N-YS140-125 SOUTH CHINA SEA (July 26, 2016) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem (DDG 63) conducts a firing exercise of the Mark 45 5/54 in (127/54 mm) lightweight gun at a surface target during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Singapore 2016, July 26. CARAT is a series of annual maritime exercises between the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and the armed forces of nine partner nations to include Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Timor-Leste. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class John Pearl/Released)

Those Brit tabloids….

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So in an epic gaffe, the Daily Star slammed the British MoD for splashing out £183m on tiny guns for HMs navy ships, specifically the new Type 26 Global Combat ships.

They painted it something like this:

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£183m? Srsly?

When in fact they were talking about 5-inch/62 cal Mk45s, something that really is never going to fit in the palm of anyone’s hand…and is even pictured in the image they used to run with the article!

The article has since been corrected

70 pounds of fury

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PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 13, 2016) The guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay (CG 53) fires her forward MK 45 5-inch gun during a naval surface fire support exercise.

Providing a combat-ready force to protect collective maritime interests, Mobile Bay, assigned to the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group, is operating in U.S. 7th Fleet as part of the Great Green Fleet on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ryan J. Batchelder)

Providing a combat-ready force to protect collective maritime interests, Mobile Bay, assigned to the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group, is operating in U.S. 7th Fleet as part of the Great Green Fleet on a regularly scheduled Western Pacific deployment. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ryan J. Batchelder)

Mobile Bay, commissioned in 1987 and home-ported at Naval Base San Diego, is the first warship named for the Civil War battle in which Rear Admiral David G. Farragut was famously (misquoted) as saying, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”