Eli5 how the guns on large navy ships actually work? They are just shooting really large bullets at other ships in the sea? Like, does it use combustion to accelerate the projectile?

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Eli5 how the guns on large navy ships actually work? They are just shooting really large bullets at other ships in the sea? Like, does it use combustion to accelerate the projectile?

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Naval guns, especially the big ones, aren’t just used to shoot at other ships. In fact, most of the time the big guns are used as a sea-based artillery. The ships can fire the rounds pretty far inland and with great accuracy. WWII (both Europe and the Pacific), Korea, and Vietnam all relied on Naval artillery especially in places where the military couldn’t get large artillery guns on the ground, or where it was very difficult to move artillery around on land.