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The Vickers .5 inch machine gun (officially "Gun, Machine, Vickers, .5-in") also known as the Vickers .50 was a large-calibre British automatic weapon. The gun was commonly used as a close-in anti-aircraft weapon on Royal Navy and Allied ships, typically in a four-gun mounting (UK) or two-gun mounting (Dutch), as well as tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles.
Oerlikon 20mm cannon; Ordnance QF 3-pounder Vickers – retired; Phalanx CIWS; QF 2-pounder naval gun – retired; QF 3-inch 20 cwt – retired; QF 4 inch Mk V naval gun – retired; QF 4 inch Mk XVI naval gun – retired; QF 4.5-inch Mk I - V naval gun – retired; QF 4.7 inch Mk VIII naval gun – retired; Vickers .50 machine gun – retired
190.5 mm (7.50 in) BL 7.5 inch Mk VI naval gun 45-caliber United Kingdom: 1920s - World War II 190.5 mm (7.50 in) Cannone da 190/45 United Kingdom Italy: Balkan Wars - World War I - World War II 194 mm (7.6 in) Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1893-1896 40-caliber France: 1893-1930 194 mm (7.6 in) Canon de 194 mm Modèle 1902 gun 50-caliber France
The 120 mm 50 caliber Pattern 1905 was a Russian naval gun developed by Vickers for export in the years before World War I that armed a variety of warships of the Imperial Russian Navy. Guns salvaged from scrapped ships found a second life as coastal artillery, railway artillery and aboard river monitors during the Russian Civil War. [2]
This is a list of the military equipment of the Royal Navy and other British naval forces of World War II. This list shows the equipment for British naval and naval aviation forces like naval artillery on board British ships and boats as well as the weapons used by British naval forces such as torpedoes and naval mines.
The Vickers 40 mm Class S gun, [1] [a] also known simply as the Vickers S or S gun, [3] was a 40 mm (1.57 in) airborne autocannon designed by Vickers-Armstrongs for use as aircraft armament. It was primarily used during World War II by British aircraft to attack ground targets. [4] It was largely replaced by the RP-3 rocket from 1943 on.
50 cal. MG; M45 Quadmount; Oerlikon 20 mm cannon; 3"/23 caliber gun (World War I, interbellum, World War II) 3"/50 caliber gun (World War I, interbellum, World War II, Korean War, Cold War) 5"/25 caliber gun (interbellum, World War II) 5"/38 caliber gun (interbellum, World War II, Korean War, Cold War) 6"/47 Mark 16 and 17 gun (Cold War, Korean ...
Vickers machine gun – standard medium machine gun of the British Army since 1912. Vickers. 50|400x400px – used as a mounted armament on fighting vehicles, as well as an anti-aircraft weapon by the Royal Navy and other allied ships. Browning M1919 – used by multiple countries during the war.