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The Ordnance Quick-Firing 17-pounder (or just 17-pdr) [note 1] was a 76.2 mm (3 inch) gun developed by the United Kingdom during World War II. It was used as an anti-tank gun on its own carriage, as well as equipping a number of British tanks. Used with the APDS shot, it was capable of defeating all but the thickest armour on German tanks.
The 17 pdr SP Achilles was basically a modified M10, the principal difference being the gun. The main armament of the Achilles was the Ordnance QF 17-pounder, a substantially more powerful gun than the 3 inch (76.2 mm) M7 mounted on the standard M10. The single top-mounted .50 inch (12.7 mm) M2 Browning heavy machine gun was retained.
The main armament of the Sherman Firefly was the Ordnance Quick-Firing 17-pounder. Designed as the successor to the British QF 6-pounder, the 17-pounder was the most powerful British tank gun of the war, and one of the most powerful of any nationality, being able to penetrate more armour than the 8.8 cm KwK 36 fitted to the German Tiger I.
Ordnance QF 6-pounder: Anti-tank gun 57 mm 2.244 inch Ordnance BL 10-pounder Mountain gun: Mountain gun 69.8 mm 2.75 inch 12-pounder (multiple types) 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
The self-propelled 17-pdr, Valentine, Mk I, Archer was a British tank destroyer [2] of the Second World War based on the Valentine infantry tank chassis fitted with an Ordnance QF 17 pounder gun. Designed and manufactured by Vickers-Armstrongs , 655 were produced between March 1943 and May 1945.
In lighter QF guns, including field guns and anti-aircraft guns, the round was complete: "fixed ammunition", where the shell was attached to the cartridge case like a large bullet. Examples are the QF 3-pounder Vickers, QF 18-pounder field gun, QF 4-inch Mk V anti-aircraft gun and the current 4.5-inch Mark 8 naval gun. Fixed QF was suited for ...
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The turret mounted the Ordnance QF 17-pounder gun required in the Tank Board specification and the hull machine gun was removed to provide stowage space for the long 17-pounder cartridges. The War Office expected that this larger ammunition, together with its stowage forward, would require two loaders alongside the commander and gunner in the ...