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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