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A 4.7 inch Gun is any of a number of British-built 120 mm naval artillery guns. Several of these guns were designed and manufactured by the Elswick Ordnance Company, part of Armstrong Whitworth. They were a major export item and hence were actually of 120 mm calibre (4.724 inches) to meet the requirements of metricised navies (although the size ...
This is a list of all weapons current and former of the United Kingdom.This list will consists of all lists on Wikipedia that deal with weapons of the United Kingdom at a certain period of time for example the Modern day and World War II. This way this list can provide a list of all weapons ever used by the UK.
12 cm mobile coastal artillery gun m/80; 12 cm tornautomatpjäs m/70; 12 cm/12 short naval gun; 12 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun; 12-cm Kanone M 80; 12-pounder long gun; 120 KRH 92; 120 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905; 120 mm howitzer Model 1901; 120 mm Krupp howitzer M1905; 120 mm gun M1; 120 mm Schneider-Canet M1897 long gun; 120 mm 45 caliber ...
Single Mk IX gun on HMCS Assiniboine with gunners sheltering behind the shield. The 4.7 inch QF Mark IX and Mark XII were 45-calibre, 4.7-inch (120 mm) naval guns which armed the majority of Royal Navy and Commonwealth destroyers in World War II, [1] and were exported to many countries after World War II as the destroyers they were mounted on were sold off.
L2 BAT, Battalion Anti Tank; The original towed gun complete with a heavy armoured shield and wheeled mount. Accepted for service in 1953. L4 MoBAT (Mobile BAT) [8] A BAT with the shield removed to lighten it (even though it still weighed some 770 kg (0.76 long tons) and a spotting weapon (a Bren light machine gun) added.
The BL 4.7-inch, 45-calibre gun (actually a metric 120 mm gun) was a British medium-velocity naval gun introduced in 1918 for destroyers. It was designed to counter a new generation of heavily armed German destroyers that were believed to be in development.
British soldiers have fired a new artillery gun for the first time on a tactical exercise in Finland. Soldiers from the 19th Regiment Royal Artillery are currently in Lapland as part of Exercise ...
The Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment at Fort Halstead designed a new 120 mm rifled tank gun in 1957. The new gun was deemed to be necessary because the British Army specified engagement ranges greater than those of other armies, for example 2,000 m (2,200 yd), as specified by the US Army, despite studies at the time that suggested engagement ranges were below those of the ...