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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In US service the mle 1897 was given the designation 75 mm gun M1897. [3] There were 480 American 75 mm field gun batteries (over 1,900 guns) on the battlefields of France in November 1918. [ 4 ] American industry began building the mle 1897 in the spring of 1918, but only 143 American-built guns had been shipped to France by 11 November 1918 ...
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Ordnance QF 3-inch howitzer; QF 12-pounder 8 cwt gun; QF 12-pounder 12 cwt AA gun; QF 12-pounder 12 cwt naval gun; QF 12-pounder 18 cwt naval gun; QF 13-pounder gun; QF 13-pounder 6 cwt AA gun; QF 13-pounder 9 cwt; QF 13-pounder Mk IV AA gun; QF 14-pounder Maxim-Nordenfelt naval gun; QF 14-pounder naval gun Mk I & II; QF 15-pounder gun ...