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480 feet per second (146 m/s) Maximum firing range. 2,100 yards (1,920 m) Filling. TNT. Filling weight. 43 pounds (19.5 kg) [2] The BL 7.5-inch howitzer (naval) was a British anti-submarine mortar developed during World War I .
7.5-inch (190 mm) [2] Muzzle velocity. 2,770 feet per second (844 m/s) [2] Maximum firing range. 12 miles (19 km) [2] The BL 7.5-inch gun Mark VI [3] was the 45 calibre naval gun forming the main battery of Royal Navy Hawkins -class cruisers. These ships with seven single gun mounts were significant to the cruiser limitations defined by the ...
7.5 inches (191 mm) Muzzle velocity. 2,765 to 2,840 feet per second (843 to 866 m/s) [1] Maximum firing range. 14,200 yards (13,000 m) [2] The BL 7.5-inch Mk II–Mk V guns [note 1] were a variety of 50- calibre naval guns used by Britain in World War I. They all had similar performance and fired the same shells.
The 7.5×54mm French, 7.5 French, or 7.5 MAS (designated as the 7,5 × 54 MAS by the C.I.P. [1]) is a rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge. It was developed by France as an update to the 7.5×57mm MAS mod. 1924 cartridge. It replaced the obsolete 8×50mmR Lebel round used during World War I, and served as the French service cartridge until ...
Zoll – Inch, usually 1 ⁄ 12 foot, but also 1 ⁄ 10. Fuss – Foot, varied between 23.51 cm in Wesel and 40.83 cm in Trier. Rheinfuss – Rhine foot, used in the North, 31.387 cm; Elle – Ell / cubit, distance between elbow and finger tip. In the North, often 2 feet, In Prussia 17 ⁄ 8 feet, in the South variable, often 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet.
The link (usually abbreviated as "l.", "li." or "lnk."), sometimes called a Gunter’s link, is a unit of length formerly used in many English-speaking countries. In US customary units modern definition, the link is exactly 100 of a US survey foot, [1] or exactly 7.92 inches or 20.1168 cm. The unit is based on Gunter's chain, a metal chain 66 ...
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.
The 3-inch/23-caliber gun (spoken "three-inch-twenty-three-caliber") was the standard anti-aircraft gun for United States destroyers through World War I and the 1920s. United States naval gun terminology indicates the gun fired a projectile 3 inches (76 mm) in diameter, and the barrel was 23 calibers long (barrel length is 3" × 23 = 69" or 1.75 meters.) [1]