• Thumbnail for QF 3.7-inch mountain howitzer
    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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  • Thumbnail for Ordnance QF 3-inch howitzer
    Ordnance QF 3 inch howitzer was a howitzer fitted to British cruiser and infantry type tanks of the Second World War so they could fire a smoke shell...
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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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  • Thumbnail for Ordnance QF 95 mm howitzer
    recoil mechanism of the Ordnance QF 6 pounder anti-tank gun. The ammunition came from the QF 3.7-inch mountain howitzer; for tank use the rounds had to...
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    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 howitzer
    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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    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 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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  • Thumbnail for QF 4-inch naval gun Mk V
    The QFinch 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 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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    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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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun
    The QF 12-pounder 12-cwt gun (Quick-Firing) (abbreviated as Q.F. 12-pdr. [12-cwt.]) was a common, versatile 3-inch (76.2 mm) calibre naval gun introduced...
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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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  • Thumbnail for QF 3-inch 20 cwt
    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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  • Thumbnail for QF 12-pounder 18 cwt naval gun
    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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  • Thumbnail for BL 2.75-inch mountain gun
    War I by the QF 3.7-inch mountain howitzer. A 2.75-inch mountain gun is on display at the Heugh Battery Museum, Hartlepool List of mountain artillery Hogg...
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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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  • Thumbnail for QF 4.7-inch Mk I–IV naval gun
    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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  • Thumbnail for QF 3-pounder Vickers
    The Ordnance QF 3-pounder Vickers (47 mm / L50) was a British artillery piece first tested in Britain in 1903. It was used on Royal Navy warships. It was...
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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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  • Thumbnail for BL 6-inch gun Mk XIX
    was superseded by the 155-mm Gun M1, and the carriages used for BL 7.2-inch howitzer When the United States entered the First World War it had a need for...
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  • Thumbnail for QF 18-pounder gun
    been placed for 274 new heavy guns and howitzers from 60-pounder Gun to 15-inch Howitzer and a new 6-inch Howitzer designed. However, by June 1915 it had...
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  • Thumbnail for BL 6-inch Mk VII naval gun
    the 1950s. The gun superseded the QF six-inch gun of the 1890s, a period during which the Royal Navy had evaluated QF technology (i.e. loading propellant...
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    The QF 1 pounder, universally known as the pom-pom due to the sound of its discharge, was a 37 mm British autocannon, the first of its type in the world...
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  • Thumbnail for QF 13-pounder Mk IV AA gun
    The Ordnance QF 13-pounder Mk IV anti-aircraft gun was an Elswick Ordnance commercial 3 inch 13-pounder gun of which 6 were supplied during World War...
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  • use in mountainous areas QF 3.7-inch mountain howitzer Smith Gun – smoothbore weapon for Home Guard use only BL 9.2-inch howitzer – WWI era 75 mm gun M1917...
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  • Thumbnail for BL 6-inch 30 cwt howitzer
    The Ordnance BL 6 inch 30cwt howitzer was a British medium howitzer used in the Second Boer War and early in World War I. The qualifier "30cwt" refers...
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  • Thumbnail for QF 4-inch naval gun Mk I – III
    The QF 4-inch gun Mks I, II, III were early British QF (quick-firing) naval guns originating in 1895. They all had barrels of 40 calibres length. The gun...
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  • Thumbnail for RML 2.5-inch mountain gun
    The Ordnance RML 2.5-inch mountain gun was a British rifled muzzle-loading mountain gun of the late 19th century designed to be broken down into four loads...
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