United States Navy

The Montana-class battleship, the Missouri (upon whose decks the Japanese surrender was officially signed on September 13, 1945) had 16-inch (406 mm) bore guns. They fired projectiles weighing from 1,900 to 2,700 pounds (850 to 1,200 kg) at a maximum speed of 2,690 feet per second (820 m/s) with a range of up to 24 nautical miles (39 km). ................
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