Talk:5inch Single Gun Mount Mk.30/@comment-31205134-20180228110029/@comment-26374692-20180302065737

The mounting of this thing is actually smaller than those Japanese 12.7cm guns, or even the 10cm. However, US DDs has more mountings for the guns, which is one of their main advantage they have over the Japanese. Though that doesn't mean they cannot rig American guns into Japanese destroyers, just see Shenyang, and probably Harekaze, though Yukikaze did received similar modification. It is just mounting these to a Japanese DD means they lost 3 guns.