Talk:130mm B-13 Twin Gun Mount/@comment-211.193.165.149-20180218141639/@comment-27062363-20180218190920

The gun is named "(130mm/50 cal length) B13 Pattern 1936", but the single mounting was also named "B13". The twin mounting used was called B-2LM, so really the proper way to name the whole thing would be "130mm guns B13 in mount twin B-2LM". Calling the guns themselves just "130mm Pattern 1936" works too.

This reflects a problem of if the navy refers to the whole gun-and-mounting by the gun designation, or the mount designation. The US Navy for example switched over to refering to whole thing by the mount's name at one point in time. This naturally isn't as much of a problem when there's only one mounting style for a given gun.