The Navy’s New Guided Cannon Shells Will Make Some of Its Ships’ Guns as Accurate as Missiles

The U.S. Navy's interest in 57-millimeter deck guns was originally derided as a mistake. But a Mk.-110 gun could become a more powerful weapon than anyone originally expected.

View in Browser  SHOP EXCLUSIVE SUBSCRIBE The Navy's New Guided Cannon Shells Will Make Some of Its Ships' Guns as Accurate as Missiles The U.S. Navy's interest in 57-millimeter deck guns was originally derided as a mistake. But a Mk.-110 gun could become a more powerful weapon than anyone originally expected. Read More The Hubble Tension Is Extremely Real—and Extremely Frustrating We still don't know why different measurements of the rate of the universe's expansion don't match. But at least we know we can't blame the Hubble Telescope. Read More Scientists Say They've Located the World's Only Mountaintop Impact Crater At a mile wide, it's substantial. Read More Life on Earth Will Be Toast Long Before the Sun's Final Death A cosmologist gives us a blow-by-blow account of the hellishly hot—and ultimately chilling—end. Read More Before Drones, the U.S. Military Tried Developing These Strange One-Person Helicopters Without powerful computers, autonomous drones just weren't possible in the 1950s—so this is what the Army and Navy came up with instead. Read More The Best Expert-Recommended Electric Snowblowers to Save Your Back From Shoveling Why dig out with a shovel when an electric snowblower can clear paths and parking spaces with ease. Read More Follow Us Unsubscribe | Privacy Notice | CA Notice at Collection Popular Mechanics is a publication of Hearst Magazines. ©2023 Hearst Magazine Media, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This email was sent by Hearst Magazines, 300 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019-3779