20 mm Oerlikon gun pt 2

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These images and files represent about 95% of the variants of the US Navy WW II 20 mm Anti-Aircraft guns, as used on just about every vessel larger than a rubber boat, landing craft, for example.

All the mounts, carriages, shields and guns were quite interchangeable; the sights all mounted the same way, but they would have been aimed and adjusted differently. So, any ship would have had any given combination of mounts, guns and sights; photographic evidence indicates that generally all the combinations would have matched in a given vessel; the alternative would have been chaotic.

Not shown (or modeled yet) is the hydroelectrically controlled sight Mk 14, but this was not generally in use with single 20's.

I have included 1/16th scale dwg files of the three versions shown, as well as the best IGES rendition I could get out of Solidworks 2010

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