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The Littlejohn adaptor/APCNR combination gave the 2 pounder a similar effect as the armour-piercing discarding sabot round used with the much larger and heavier QF 6 pounder gun. The muzzle velocity of the APSV Mark II shell was 1,143 m/s compared with the 792 m/s of the normal 1.2 kg APCBC shell.
The Space Engineering EDucation Satellite 2 [1] (SEEDS-2) is a Japanese amateur CubeSat picosatellite, built and operated by Nihon University. It was launched by the Indian Space Research Organisation, aboard a PSLV rocket, on 28 April 2008. [2] It was built to replace the SEEDS satellite, which was lost in a launch failure on a Dnepr rocket in ...
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The Ordnance QF 2-pounder (QF denoting "quick firing"), or simply "2 pounder gun", was a 40 mm (1.575 in) British anti-tank gun and vehicle-mounted gun employed in the Second World War. It was the main anti-tank weapon of the artillery units in the Battle of France and, due to the need to rearm quickly after the Dunkirk evacuation , remained in ...
The Peerless chassis had almost identical dimensions to the Pierce-Arrow so practically the same armour was used, they were, like the Pierce-Arrows, armed with a 2-pounder "pom-pom" and a Vickers machine gun. [2] Delivered to Russia in 1916, the Russians subsequently fitted some with a small turret in place of the 2-pounder. [2]
The QF 2-pounder Mark II was a larger version of the QF 1-pounder Maxim gun produced by Vickers. It was a 40 mm calibre gun with a water-cooled barrel and a Vickers-Maxim mechanism. It was ordered in 1915 by the Royal Navy as an anti-aircraft weapon for ships of cruiser size and below. The original models fired from hand-loaded fabric belts ...
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Ordnance QF 2-pounder; QF 3-inch 20 cwt; Ordnance QF 3-inch howitzer; QF 3.7-inch mountain howitzer; QF 3.7-inch AA gun; QF 4.5-inch howitzer; QF 4.5-inch Mk I – V naval gun; Ordnance QF 6-pounder; Ordnance QF 17-pounder; QF 18-pounder gun; Ordnance QF 32-pounder; Ordnance QF 75 mm; Ordnance QF 95 mm howitzer