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The Ordnance QF 18-pounder, [note 3] or simply 18-pounder gun, was the standard British Empire field gun of the First World War-era. It formed the backbone of the Royal Field Artillery during the war, and was produced in large numbers. It was used by British Forces in all the main theatres, and by British troops in Russia in 1919.
Light field gun 76.2 mm 3 inch Ordnance QF 13-pounder: 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 ...
QF 13-pounder gun; QF 15-pounder gun; QF 18-pounder gun; R. RBL 20-pounder Armstrong gun This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 04:33 (UTC). ...
40mm Bofors guns in Greece 1940 QF 3.7 inch Heavy anti-aircraft gun set up for firing. QF 3-inch 20 cwt; Oerlikon 20 mm cannon-light anti-aircraft gun; 20 mm Polsten – lower cost development of Oerlikon; 40 mm Bofors; QF 3.7 inch AA gun; QF 4.5-inch Mark I to Mark V; QF 5.25-inch gun; Z Battery; Unrotated Projectile, including "fast aerial ...
The gun was ideal for defending against small fast vessels such as torpedo boats and was immediately adopted by the RN as the "Ordnance QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss". [2] It was built under licence by Elswick Ordnance Company. The Royal Navy introduced the QF 4.7-inch in HMS Sharpshooter in 1889, and the QF 6-inch MK 1 in HMS Royal Sovereign ...
QF 12-pounder 8 cwt gun United Kingdom: Second Boer War, World War I: 76.2: QF 13-pounder gun United Kingdom: World War I 76.2: BL 15 pounder 7 cwt gun United Kingdom: Second Boer War, World War I: 76.2: BLC 15-pounder gun United Kingdom: World War I 76.2: QF 15-pounder Mk.I The Ehrhardt German Empire: World War I 76.2: 3-inch M1902 field gun ...
A year ago, the 18-year-old shooter who killed 19 students and two teachers at a Uvalde elementary school used two AR-15-style semi-automatic rifles. Salvador Ramos had posted photos of both guns ...
The US decided early in World War I to switch from 3-inch (76 mm) to 75 mm calibre for its field guns. Its preferred gun for re-equipment was the French 75 mm Model of 1897, but early attempts to produce it in the US using US commercial mass-production techniques failed, partly due to delays in obtaining necessary French plans, and then their being incomplete or inaccurate, and partly because ...