Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 5.5 inch guns were removed from HMS Hood in the 1935 refit. In 1940 two were installed in Fort Bedford Battery on Ascension Island and remain there today. A pair were installed in specially built casemates on the roof of Coalhouse Fort in Essex, overlooking the Thames. [4]
5.5 5 All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling AJW 19 5 6 World Championship Wrestling WCW 7 6 7 Ring of Honor ROH 5.5 8 Asistencia Asesoría y Administración/Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide: AAA 6 5 9 Revolution Pro Wrestling: RevPro 5 6 10 Pro Wrestling Noah: Noah 5.25 11 Pro Wrestling Guerrilla PWG 5 Jim Crockett Promotions: JCP 13
The BL 4.5 inch medium gun was a British gun used by field artillery in the Second World War for counter-battery fire. Developed as a replacement for the BL 60-pounder gun it used the same carriage as the BL 5.5-inch medium gun but fired a lighter round further.
From the BL Mark I gun of 1916 the 4.7-inch (120 mm) calibre was the mid-calibre weapon of the Royal Navy, used particularly on destroyers.Apart from some ships armed with QF 4-inch Mk V guns due to shortages, it remained the standard weapon for destroyers up to the W-class destroyers of 1943.
The 5.25-inch gun was carried in Mk I twin mountings by the King George V class and in Mk II twin mountings on nine of the first eleven Dido-class anti-aircraft cruisers, the exceptions being HMS Scylla and HMS Charybdis, which mounted QF 4.5-inch Mk III guns due to shortages of the 5.25-inch gun.
The 7.5 cm Pak 41 was one of the last German anti-tank guns brought into service and used in World War II and notable for being one of the largest anti-tank guns to rely on the Gerlich principle (pioneered by the German gun-designer Hermann Gerlich, who developed the principle in the 1920s, reportedly for a hunting rifle) to deliver a higher muzzle velocity and therefore greater penetration in ...
The BL 7.5-inch Mk II–Mk V guns [note 1] were a variety of 50-calibre naval guns used by Britain in World War I. They all had similar performance and fired the same shells. They all had similar performance and fired the same shells.
A new type of 4.5 inch gun with a longer 55-calibre barrel, it was designed in the 1960s for the Royal Navy's new classes of frigates and destroyers.The weapon, built by Vickers Ltd Armament Division, was developed by the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment using the Ordnance, QF 105 mm L13 of the Abbot self-propelled gun as a starting point (it used electrical primers).