Sentence examples for main calibre from inspiring English sources

The choice of 14 inches gun and the mix of quadruple and twin turrets for the main battery of the King George Vs had been dictated by the Second London Naval Treaty, which limited battleships to standard displacement and a main calibre of 14 inches.

This effect of interaction indicates that independent from the natural anatomical effect of proximally increasing calibre (main effect of Location) and independent from the apparent disease related calibre increase (effect of Group), there exists an additional location dependent effect of disease severity on nerve calibre.

When the Regia Marina did not pursue his ideas, Cuniberti wrote an article in Janes proposing an "ideal" future British battleship, a large armored warship of 17,000 tons, armed solely with a single calibre main battery (twelve 12-inch {305 mm} guns), carrying 300 mm belt armor, and capable of 24 knots (44 km/h).

Other types armed with large-calibre main guns include tank destroyers and assault guns.

Instead, it mounted a single-calibre main armament of 10 12-inch guns in five twin turrets.

The change was vividly illustrated by the "new navy" the United States began building in the 1880s, consisting not of improved monitors but of powerful seagoing capital ships with mixed-calibre main batteries.

The major risk factors are a small-calibre main pancreatic duct (diameter < 3 mm), a soft parenchymal texture and intraoperative bleeding [6, 7].

When the US was considering whether to have a mixed-calibre main armament for the South Carolina class, for example, William Sims and Homer Poundstone stressed the advantages of homogeneity in terms of ammunition supply and the transfer of crews from the disengaged guns to replace gunners wounded in action.

Axial CT images of a patient with TBM demonstrating a normal-calibre right main bronchus during inspiration (b), which collapses with expiratory imaging (c).

Dreadnoughts mounted a uniform main battery of heavy-calibre guns; the number, size, and arrangement differed between designs.

By 10 min, the calibre of the main pancreatic duct should return to baseline (Fig. 1a-c) with persistent dilatation of >3 mm considered abnormal.