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QF 4.5-inch howitzer. 114 x73-86 mm R separate QF. HE shell 16 kg (35 lb) The Ordnance QF 4.5-inch howitzer was the standard British Empire field (or "light") howitzer of the First World War era. It replaced the BL 5-inch howitzer and equipped some 25% of the field artillery. It entered service in 1910 and remained in service through the ...
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The BL 4.5 inch medium gun was a British gun used by field artillery in the Second World War for counter-battery fire. Developed as a replacement for the BL 60-pounder gun it used the same carriage as the BL 5.5-inch medium gun but fired a lighter round further. It had nothing in common with the QF 4.5 inch Howitzer or the QF 4.5 inch AA gun.
37 mm kan M/98B (Finspång 37 mm naval gun L/39 model 1901) Sweden-Norway. 1900s - Cold War. 38.1 mm (1.50 in) 38 mm kan M/84 (Nordenfelt 1½In fast shooting naval gun L/43 model 1884) Sweden-Norway. 1880s - World War I. 40 mm (1.6 in) 40 mm ubakan m/32 (Bofors 40 mm submarine automatic gun L/43 model 1932)
The QF 3.7-inch AA was Britain's primary heavy anti-aircraft gun during World War II. It was roughly the equivalent of the German Flak 8.8 cm and American 90 mm , but with a slightly larger calibre of 3.7 inches, approximately 94 mm. Production began in 1937 and it was used throughout World War II in all theatres except the Eastern Front.
Back of British Ordnance BL 5.5 inch (140 mm) M3 medium gun from year 1939, displayed in Hämeenlinna Artillery Museum. A British gunner uses the dial sight and range scale plate of a 5.5-inch gun in 1944. Canadian signaler with shells during a shoot, France July 1944. A BL 5.5 at the base of the Italian Army 's 5th Mountain Artillery Regiment.
Indian Army battery, probably 39th, at Jerusalem, December 1917. The 3.7-inch howitzer was first introduced in 1917, and was used in action in that year in the Mesopotamian Campaign (modern Iraq area). The 22nd (Derajat) Indian Frontier Force mountain battery arrived in the East Africa campaign on 18 December 1916, when they relieved the 28th ...
The 3-inch 20 cwt with its powerful and stable in flight, [18] 16 lb (7.3 kg) shell and fairly high altitude was well suited to defending the United Kingdom against high-altitude Zeppelins and bombers. The 16-pound shell took 9.2 seconds to reach 5,000 ft (1,500 m) at 25 degrees from horizontal, 13.7 seconds to reach 10,000 ft (3,000 m) at 40 ...