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A "toothbrush length" naval gun for cheaps (lemmy.world)
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[–] starman2112@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

That's because british journalists are incredibly stupid. Industry standard is to refer to weapons by their bore–you don't call a Glock 19 a 185mm handgun, after all.