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    Ordnance QF 4.5-inch howitzer was the standard British Empire field (or "light") howitzer of the First World War era. It replaced the BL 5-inch howitzer and...
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    Ordnance, QF 3.7-inch howitzer is a mountain gun, used by British and Commonwealth armies in the First and Second World Wars, and between the wars. The...
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    Regular Army brigades by the modern QF 4.5-inch howitzer. Territorial Force brigades, however, continued to use the howitzer in World War I into 1916, including...
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    as the BL 5.5-inch medium gun but fired a lighter round further. It had nothing in common with the QF 4.5 inch Howitzer or the QF 4.5 inch AA gun. By...
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    mm howitzer M1909 - very similar piece in Russian service designed by Krupp QF 4.5-inch howitzer - British equivalent, also in Russian service 10.5 cm...
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    15-inch howitzer was developed by the Coventry Ordnance Works late in 1914 in response to the success of its design of the 9.2-inch siege howitzer. The...
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  • Thumbnail for BL 8-inch howitzer Mk I – V
    The BL 8-inch howitzer Mark I through to Mark V (1 to 5) were a British improvisation developed early in the First World War to provide heavy artillery...
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    The Ordnance BL 5.4-inch howitzer was a version of the British 5-inch howitzer designed for British Indian Army use, especially on the Northwest Frontier...
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    Schneider et Cie QF 4.5-inch howitzer - British equivalent, in Russian service also 10.5 cm Feldhaubitze 98/09 - early German equivalent 10.5 cm leFH 16 -...
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    BL 12-inch howitzer was a scaled-up version of the successful BL 9.2-inch siege howitzer. Following the success of their BL 9.2-inch howitzer, Vickers...
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  • 4.5 inch gun may refer to: QF 4.5-inch howitzer, a British Army weapon of the World War I era QF 4.5-inch Mk I – V naval gun, a British family of naval...
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  • Thumbnail for BL 6-inch 26 cwt howitzer
    The Ordnance BL 6 inch 26cwt howitzer was a British howitzer used during World War I and World War II. The qualifier "26cwt" refers to the weight of the...
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    The QF 4 inch Mk V gun was a Royal Navy gun of World War I which was adapted on HA (i.e. high-angle) mountings to the heavy anti-aircraft role both at...
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  • Thumbnail for BL 9.2-inch howitzer
    The Ordnance BL 9.2-inch howitzer was a heavy siege howitzer that formed the principal counter-battery equipment of British forces in France in World War...
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  • as the QF 12-pounder 12 cwt and QF 6-inch naval gun, and howitzers, such as the QF 4.5-inch howitzer and Ordnance QF 25-pounder gun-howitzer, the projectile...
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    The QF 4.7-inch gun Mks I, II, III, and IV were a family of British quick-firing 4.724-inch (120 mm) naval and coast defence guns of the late 1880s and...
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  • Howitzers are one of two primary types of field artillery. Historically, howitzers fired a heavy shell in a high-trajectory from a relatively short barrel...
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    British artillery. 4-inch M1902 field gun BL 14-inch railway howitzer BL 14-inch howitzer BL 50-pounder gun BL 9.1-inch howitzer Canon de 155 C modèle...
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  • Thumbnail for QF 2.95-inch mountain gun
    The QF 2.95-inch mountain gun was the designation given by the British to a Vickers 75 mm calibre gun. It was originally produced for the Egyptian Army...
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  • Thumbnail for BL 12-inch railway howitzer
    Ordnance BL 12 inch howitzer on truck, railway, a type of railway gun, was developed following the success of the 9.2-inch siege howitzer. It was similar...
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    war. It was superseded at the end of World War I by the QF 3.7-inch mountain howitzer. A 2.75-inch mountain gun is on display at the Heugh Battery Museum...
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  • Thumbnail for QF 13-pounder 6 cwt AA gun
    Ordnance QF 13 pounder Mk III anti-aircraft gun, also known as 13 pounder 6 cwt, was an early British improvisation in World War I to adapt the QF 13-pounder...
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  • Thumbnail for BL 8-inch howitzer Mk VI – VIII
    The BL 8-inch howitzer Marks VI, VII and VIII (6, 7 and 8) were a series of British artillery siege howitzers on mobile carriages of a new design introduced...
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    The QF 3-inch 20 cwt anti-aircraft gun became the standard anti-aircraft gun used in the home defence of the United Kingdom against German Zeppelins airships...
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    photograph Range Table For 3-Inch Stokes Mortar (Report). United Kingdom War Office. September 1917. "Stokes' trench howitzer, 3", mark I". US Army War College...
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    BL 12 inch Howitzer British equivalent Skoda 305 mm Model 1911 Austro-Hungarian equivalent Wikimedia Commons has media related to 305-mm howitzer M1915...
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    the new cordite propellant. They were superseded on new warships by the QF 6-inch gun from 1891. These were Royal Gun Factory designs, although they were...
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    shrapnel shell. QF 4.5-inch howitzer British equivalent 10.5 cm Feldhaubitze M.12 Romanian upgrade of the 10.5 cm Feldhaubitze 98/09 German 10.5-cm. light field...
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    The Ordnance QF 25-pounder Short was an Australian variant of the British Ordnance QF 25-pounder field gun/howitzer. The gun was developed by modifying...
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    The QF 12 pounder 18 cwt gun (Quick-Firing) was a 3-inch high-velocity naval gun used to equip larger British warships such as battleships for defence...
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