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Model 1968 naval gun

Country of Origin: France

The French 100-mm (3.9-in) dual-purpose automatic gun is the main-gun armament in French warships.

The Model 1953 has analog fire control using electric and electro-mechanical subsystems to generate solutions; the gun director has optical sights and radar. The later Model 1968 is housed in a lighter mount, has a higher rate of fire than the Model 1953 and has a digital fire control system with m agnetic tape or disk memory. An interim variant, Model 1964, also using analog fire...

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