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gun stringlengths 4 7	shell_weight_lb int64 13 3.22k	range_yd stringlengths 6 6 ⌀	ceiling_ft stringclasses 16 values	fire_control stringlengths 1 5 ⌀	ship_class stringlengths 2 48	source_page int64 21 685
12/50	870	23,500	null	30	Rivadavias	21
10/40	500	null	null	null	Belgranos	21
9.4/35	353	null	null	null	Independencias	21
7.5/52	200	29,855	null	null	Almirante Browns	21
6/50	105	null	null	7.5	Rivadavias	21
6/40	100	null	null	null	Pueyrredón	21
4.7/45	50	null	null	5	Corrientes class	21
4/50	31	19,900	37,400	null	La Argentina	21
4/40?	30	null	null	null	Santa Fes, CA	21
15/45	1,951	null	null	null	Riachuelo	27
12/45	850	null	null	30	Minas Gerais class	27
6/50	100	null	null	null	Parnaíba	27
5/38	55	18,200	37,200	3	Marcílio Dias class	27
4.7/50	45	null	null	null	BB, Bahias, Paraguaçu	27
4.7/40	45	null	null	null	Pernambuco	27
4/45	31	null	null	null	Cariocas	27
3.9/47	30	13,800	null	null	Tamoios	27
14/45	1,586	24,400	null	30	BB	32
8/40	250	null	null	null	O’Higgins	32
6/50	100	null	null	null	BB, Chacabuco	32
6/40	100	null	null	7.5	O’Higgins, Blanco Encalada	32
4.7/45	49	null	null	5	Serranos, O’Briens	32
4/45	31	16,430	31,000	3.5	BB	32
15/45	1,949	45,600	null	25-40	Richelieus	61
13.4/45	1,268	29,090	null	40	Bretagnes	61
13/50	1,235	45,600	null	22-40	Dunkerques	61
12/45	952	25,150	null	45	Courbets	61
8/50	295	32,800	null	12-15	CA	61
6.1/50	125	28,540	null	12-20	Béarn, Jean d’Arc, Duguay Trouins	61
6/55	119	28,952	null	7-8	BB, Émile Bertin, Galissonnières	61
5.5/55	87	17,600	null	10-12	BB, Arras class	61
5.5/50	90	21,870	null	4-10	Le Fantasques, Mogadors	61
5.5/40	90	19,900	null	10-12	Guépards	61
5.1/45	714	22,820	null	6	Dunkerques, Joffres	61
5.1/40	70	20,670	null	12-15	Jaguars, Bourrasques	61
3.9/45	33	17,280	32,280	6	Algérie, Lorraine, Richelieu	61
3.5/50	21	16,885	34,800	6	Bertin, Galissonnières, Jean Bart, most Suffrens	61
3/50	13	16,300	32,800	4-8	Suffren, other cruisers, CV, SS, old BB	61
3/34.5	14	null	null	null	SS	61
16/47	2,271	40,250	null	31	“H” class BB	107
15/47	1,764	38,880	null	26	Bismarcks, BC	107
11.1/54	728	44,760	null	17+	Scharnhorsts	107
11.1/52	661	39,890	null	24	Deutschlands	107
11.1/40	626	28,040	null	null	Schlesiens	107
8/60	269	36,680	null	12	CA	107
5.9/60	100	28,100	null	7.5	Nürnberg, Leipzig, “K” class CL	107
5.9/55	100	25,150	null	7.5	Scharnhorst twin mounts, BB, “M” class cruisers	107
5.9/48	100	24,005	null	null	regunned Emden, more range in “O”	107
5.9/45	100	21,220	null	null	Schlesiens, some AMC	107
5/45	62	19,030	null	null	Grille, Bremse, DD and TB	107
4.1/65	33	19,360	41,000	3.5	Graf Zeppelin, Deutschlands, BB, BC, CA	107
4.1/45	33	16,595	33,8008	null	Emden, Schlesiens, SS, many TB and others	107
3.5/76	20	18,800	40,680	null	Nürnberg, Leipzig, “K” class CL	107
3.5/45	20	13,070	null	null	some SS, MS, and SC	107
16/45	2,375	40,560	null	30	Lions	173
15/42	1,938	33,550	null	30	30° mount; Renown, Vanguard, other BB	173
3/45	17	12,920	25,500	null	some MS, added to DD	175
3/40	13	11,750	19,000	null	some SS and old DD, many others	175
18.1/45	3,219	45,960	null	30-40	Yamatos	350
16.1/45	2,249	42,000	null	25	Nagatos, canceled designs	350
14/45	1,485	38,770	null	30	Kongos, Fusos, most Ise guns	350
10/40.3	500	19,700	null	20+	Kasuga	350
16/50	2,443	49,900	null	23-35	Sovyetskii Soyuz class	491
16/45	2,461	null	null	null	final Tsarist project	491
14/52	1,649	25,425	null	20	Izmails	491
12/55	1,036	52,030	null	18-30	Kronshtadts	491
12/52	1,038	25,410	null	27-33	old BB	491
9.4/60	518	45,930	null	22.5	Cruiser X, 45° mount?	491
12/50	850	23,500	null	30	España guns	541
8/50	256	32,530	null	10	Canarias	541
6/50	100	22,300	null	6	Galicias	541
4.7/	49	null	null	null	Churrucas	541
4.7/45	49	null	null	5	Canarias, Méndez Núñez	541
4.1/45	33	16,595	33,800	null	Cervera, Eolos, Canalejas	541
3.9/43	30	12,000	null	null	General Molas	541
16/50	2,700	42,345	null	30	Iowas, Montanas	572
16/45	2,700	36,900	null	30	North Carolinas, South Dakotas	572
14/50	1,500	36,300	null	30	New Mexicos, Tennessees	572
14/45	1,500	34,300	null	30	Pennsylvanias, Nevadas	572
12/50	1,140	38,573	null	20-25	Alaskas	572
8/55	335	30,050	null	13-15	Baltimores	572
6/53	105	25,300	null	10-15	Omahas (turrets)	572
6/47	130	26,118	null	6-8	Brooklyns, Clevelands	572
5/54	70	25,909	51,600	4	Midways, Montanas	572
5/51	50	17,300	null	7	some Tambors	572
5/38	55	18,200	37,200	313	standard fleet DP gun	572
5/25	54	14,500	27,400	3-4	Ranger, Lexingtons, prewar cruisers, old BB	572
4/50	33	15,920	null	7	Eagle boats, old DD, some SS	572
3/50	13	14,590	29,800	3-4	DE, many old or small units	572
3/23	13	10,100	18,000	null	some old DD, cutters, and other small vessels	572
13.8/45	1,543	27,350	null	30	Austrian battleships	685
12/45	992	21,850	null	30	Austrian battleships	685
9.4/45	474	null	null	24	Austrian battleships	685

WWII Naval Armament & Treaty Data

Structured tables extracted from Fleets of World War II: Design History and Analysis (Nimble Books, ISBN 9781608881604). Three queryable tables plus the full set of 35 extracted source tables.

table	rows	what
`naval_guns`	93	gun armament specs — caliber, shell weight, range, ceiling, fire control, ship class
`torpedoes`	42	torpedo specs — type, explosive weight, range/speed
`treaty_tonnage`	19	interwar naval-treaty tonnage allocations (Washington / London)

Provenance & rights

Extracted from the book's canonical interior PDF via PyMuPDF table detection. The underlying data is published with the permission of Nimble Books LLC under CC BY-NC 4.0 — free for non-commercial and research use with attribution. Commercial use requires a license from Nimble Books LLC (editorial@bigfivekiller.online). Page-level provenance in every row (source_page).

Example queries

"Which WWII navies' battleships mounted guns of 15-inch caliber or larger?"
"Compare destroyer tonnage allowed to Britain, the US and Japan under the naval treaties."
"List Japanese oxygen torpedoes and their range."

Source & full analysis

The narrative design-history and analysis — why these fleets were built the way they were — is in the book: Fleets of World War II, Nimble Books. https://bigfivekiller.online/books/9781608881604/

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