127-millimeter, 54-caliber Type24 gun
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The Type24 is a primary crew-served artillery unit found on Planetary Union Fleet warships.
Contents
Design
- A barbette with a rotating turret
- Barrel length: 7 meters (barrels usually found in pairs, two to a barbette)
Crew
A three-person crew operates a Type25 battery:
- Pointer: Uses handwheels to control barrel elevation.
- Trainer: Uses hand wheels to rotate the gunhouse.
- Turret Master: Commands the gun and stays in contact with the CIC
Munitions
- Flak: For use against enemy voidcraft, missiles, torpedoes, and exo-troops. Flak rounds detonate near the target (either by proximity fuse or timer), sending out a cloud of jagged metal fragments.
- HEAT: High-energy explosive rounds designed to penetrate ship armor
- STC blazers: Gun-launched devices that corrupt local space-time curvature
- Canister: Effectively a shotgun round timed to detonate near the target. Canister rounds contains 50-100 1.2mm tungsten balls.
Excerpts
From SHAKEDOWN: Ishi’s main offensive power consisted of two Type24 guns, one mounted flush bottomside, the other topside on a barbette that let it shoot over the ship’s single-layer superstructure and the clear, shallow dome of her bubble-deck. The 127-millimeter, 54-caliber weapons were a mainstay of Fleet frigates and destroyers. While not as insanely powerful as the bigger artillery pieces found on cruisers, assault ships and carriers, the versatile 24s packed a world of hurt.
Sigler, Scott. The Crypt: Shakedown: (A Military Sci-Fi Novel) (p. 63). Aethon Books. Kindle Edition.
