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In August 1944 the BL-8 gun was replaced with the improved 152.4 mm BL-10 (БЛ-10) long-barreled gun, with a slightly shorter barrel of 7.392 metres (24.25 ft) (48.5 calibers). This vehicle gun was designated ISU-152-2 (ИСУ-152-2). The factory designation was Object 247 (Объект 247). It was also equipped with external fuel tanks.
The British 10-inch calibre originated with the Committee on Ordnance in 1879 when it ordered a new 10.4-inch gun together with the new 9.2-inch as part of its transition from muzzle-loading to breech-loading guns. The proposed 10.4-inch gun eventually went into service in 1885 as a 10-inch gun firing a 500-pound projectile.
31,400 yd (28,700 m) Maximum firing range. 40,500 yd (37,000 m) Filling weight. 243 lb (110 kg) The BL 18-inch Mk I naval gun was a breech-loading naval rifle used by the Royal Navy during World War I. It was the largest and heaviest gun ever used by the British. [1] Only the Second-World-War Japanese 46 cm/45 Type 94 had a larger calibre, 18.1 ...
1,289 ft/s (393 m/s) [1] Effective firing range. 3,700 yards (3,383 m) (Time Fuze) 6,000 yards (5,486 m) (Percussion fuze) [1] The Ordnance BL 10 pounder mountain gun [3] was developed as a BL successor to the RML 2.5 inch screw gun which was outclassed in the Second Boer War .
Maximum firing range. 19,660 metres (21,500 yd) [7] The BL 6-inch Mark XII naval gun [8] was a British 45 calibre naval gun which was mounted as primary armament on light cruisers and secondary armament on dreadnought battleships commissioned in the period 1914–1926, and remained in service on many warships until the end of World War II .
The BL 6-inch gun Marks II, III, IV and VI [note 1] were the second and subsequent generations of British 6-inch rifled breechloading naval guns, designed by the Royal Gun Factory in the 1880s following the first 6-inch breechloader, the relatively unsuccessful BL 6-inch 80-pounder gun designed by Elswick Ordnance.
Yaoi (/ ˈ j aʊ i / YOW-ee; Japanese: やおい), also known as boys' love (ボーイズ ラブ, bōizu rabu) and its abbreviation BL (ビーエル, bīeru), is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters.
History 13 cwt Mk I, 15 calibres. This was the first 4-inch BL gun. With its short (60-inch total) barrel it had a range of only 5,500 yards. 22.5 cwt Mk I, 25 calibres. With its longer barrel (100 inch bore) Mk I had a range of 7,200 yards.