The Vickers K machine gun, known as the Vickers Gas Operated (Vickers G.O.) or Gun, Machine, Vickers G.O. .303-inch in British service, was a rapid-firing...
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Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth...
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The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...
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The Vickers .5 inch machine gun (officially "Gun, Machine, Vickers, .5-in") also known as the Vickers .50 was a large-calibre British automatic weapon...
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The Vickers VC10 is a mid-sized, narrow-body long-range British jet airliner designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd and first flown at...
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Wellington, the other being the Vickers Wellesley. A larger heavy bomber aircraft designed to Specification B.1/35, the Vickers Warwick, was developed in parallel...
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The Vickers–Berthier (VB) is a light machine gun that was produced by the British company Vickers-Armstrong. It was adopted by the British Indian Army...
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Alonzo Knox Vickers (September 25, 1853 – January 21, 1915) was an American politician and jurist from Illinois. Vickers received a basic public education...
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machine gun mounted in the starboard wing for the pilot and a free .303 Vickers K machine gun in the rear cockpit for the gunner. The observer-navigator...
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The Vickers Wellesley was a medium bomber that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs at Brooklands near Weybridge...
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drew up a new design, the Vickers Type 18, or Vickers E.F.B.2. This was a two-bay biplane powered by a single 80 hp (60 kW) Gnome Monosoupape nine-cylinder...
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Airfield in Egypt, Sadler navigated eighteen jeeps, each armed with four Vickers K machine guns, to destroy thirty-seven German aircraft. However, during...
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intended defensive weapons, resulting in the switch to a single 0.303 Vickers K machine gun for the nose turret while an arrangement of four 0.303 Browning...
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Browning machine gun and the Vickers K machine gun, but these were issued more sparsely than the MG 42, with the Vickers K being an aircraft machine gun...
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List of firearms (section K)
rifle – 5.45×39mm) Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. Machine guns Vickers_.50_machine_gun Vickers_machine_gun Vickers_K_machine_gun Vickers K (United Kingdom – 1935...
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catalytic cracking unit Vgo (stonemason) Vickers Gas Operated machine gun, a service name for the Vickers K machine gun Video Game Orchestra, a video...
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preceding bomber aircraft. Handley Page and Vickers both designed aircraft to meet this specification, the Vickers design became the Wellington. The Handley...
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193 kW) Wright GR-2600-A5B radial piston engines, armed with 10 0.303 in (7.7 mm) machine guns, eight fixed Brownings and two flexible Vickers K machine...
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terrain better than other transport, were cut down, adapted and fitted with Vickers K machine guns fore and aft. Stirling also pioneered the use of small groups...
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wing, while the rear cockpit was provided with either a single or twin Vickers K machine gun. It could carry a maximum under-wing bomb load of four 500 lb...
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303 Vickers Medium Mk. I machine guns, five Lewis guns, four Boys anti-tank guns and the Bofors 37 mm. Another Vickers gun used was the heavy Vickers .50...
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1 × .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers K machine gun in a dorsal step position with 5 x 97-round magazines 1 × .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers K machine gun in a ventral...
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along with Oerlikon 20 mm cannon and some defensive armament (two twin Vickers K machine guns, one either side) for protection against enemy aircraft....
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in Egypt. These had several armaments, commonly using twin 0.303-inch Vickers K machine guns on the passenger side. Many field kits originated as locally...
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3-pounder Vickers List of naval guns Notes Treatise on ammunition 10th Edition 1915. War Office, UK. Page 404 Bibliography British Vickers 3-pdr (1.4...
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QF 2-pounder naval gun (redirect from Vickers Type 40 mm AT/AA Gun)
the QF 1-pounder Maxim gun produced by Vickers. It was a 40 mm calibre gun with a water-cooled barrel and a Vickers-Maxim mechanism. It was ordered in 1915...
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Henry VIII: King and Court. Vintage. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-09-953242-2. Vickers, K. (1907). Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester: A Biography. London: Archibald...
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The Vickers 6-ton tank or Vickers Mark E, also known as the "Six-tonner", was a British light tank designed in 1928 in a private project at Vickers. Though...
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usually mounted on top of the firearm. This type is used on the Lewis gun, Vickers K, Bren gun (only used in anti-aircraft mountings), Degtyaryov light machine...
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800–3,200 rpm (sS ball ammunition) Rate of fire: 3,400–3,600 rpm ShKAS Vickers K machine gun List of firearms List of secondary and special-issue World...
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