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Light field gun 76.2 mm 3 inch 15- pounder (multiple types) Field gun 76.2 mm 3 inch Ordnance QF 17- pounder: Anti-tank gun 76.2 mm 3 inch Ordnance QF 18- pounder: Field gun 83.8 mm 3.3 inch Ordnance QF 20-pounder: Tank gun 83.8 mm 3.3 inch Ordnance QF 25-pounder: Gun-howitzer 87.6 mm 3.45 inch Ordnance QF 32-pounder: Tank gun 94 mm 3.7 inch
The L131 AS-90 is a 155mm self-propelled howitzer and is the largest piece of field artillery in the British Army. The L131 is operated by these field artillery regiments: 1st Regiment RHA, 19th Regiment RA. [196] To be replaced by 116 RCH 155s, fitted onto the Boxer mechanised infantry vehicle. [197] Archer Artillery System Sweden
British Artillery 1914–1919. Field Army Artillery. New Vanguard 94. Oxford UK: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-84176-688-7. Nigel F Evans, Ordnance B.L. 60 pr Gun Mks 2 & 2* on Carriage 60 pr Mk 4P; General Sir Martin Farndale, History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. Western Front 1914–18. London: Royal Artillery Institution, 1986 ISBN 1 ...
The gun was initially adopted by both the Royal Field Artillery and Royal Horse Artillery, and was in full service by 1885.It marked a return to breech-loading guns, after the British Army had reverted to muzzle-loaders in the late 1860s following the failure of the Armstrong screw breech guns.
The Ordnance QF 25-pounder, or more simply 25-pounder or 25-pdr, with a calibre of 3.45 inches (87.6 mm), was a piece of field artillery used by British and Commonwealth forces in the Second World War. Durable, easy to operate and versatile, [2] it was the most produced and used British field gun and gun-howitzer during the war.
BL 4.5-inch medium field gun; BL 5.5-inch medium gun; BL 6-inch 30 cwt howitzer; BL 6-inch gun Mk V; BL 9.45 inch Howitzer Mk I; BL 10-pounder mountain gun; BL 12-pounder 6 cwt gun; Ordnance BL 12-pounder 7 cwt; BL 15-pounder gun; Blakely rifle; British standard ordnance weights and measurements
QF 2-pounder naval gun; QF 2.95-inch mountain gun; QF 3-inch 20 cwt; QF 3-pounder Vickers; QF 3.7-inch mountain howitzer; QF 4.5-inch howitzer; QF 4.7-inch Mk I–IV naval gun; QF 6-pounder 6 cwt Hotchkiss; QF 6-pounder Hotchkiss; QF 12-pounder 8 cwt gun; QF 12-pounder 12 cwt AA gun; QF 13-pounder gun; QF 13-pounder 6 cwt AA gun; QF 13-pounder ...
This list of artillery catalogues types of weapons found in batteries of national armed forces' artillery units.. Some weapons used by the infantry units, known as infantry support weapons, are often misidentified as artillery weapons because of their use and performance characteristics, sometimes known colloquially as the "infantryman's artillery" [1] which has been particularly applied to ...