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In British military practice, Mark ("Mk") designations were given in Roman numerals (replaced by Arabic numerals in 1944) to reflect variants of or production changes to service weaponry, either on their own or as part of numerical ("No.") designations; in the Lee-Enfield rifle series for example, the SMLE rifles were produced to Mk I, Mk III, and Mk V specification (with the latter two later ...
The Ordnance QF 75 mm, abbreviated to OQF 75 mm, was a British tank gun of the Second World War. It was obtained by boring out the Ordnance QF 6-pounder ("6 pdr") 57 mm anti-tank gun to 75 mm, to give better performance against infantry targets similarly to the 75 mm M3 gun fitted to the American Sherman tank .
The gun was able to destroy the most common allied tanks at up to 1,000 meters. It used the same 75 x 495R ammunition as the 7.5 cm KwK 40 of Panzer IV and 7.5 cm StuK 40 gun fitted on the Sturmgeschütz assault guns. The Pak 39 was manufactured from 1943 onwards by Rheinmetall-Borsig AG in Unterlüß and by Seitz-Werke GmbH in Bad Kreuznach.
A revised version of this gun was released as the Škoda 75 mm Model 1928. The Germans bought some guns during World War I, but used them as infantry guns in direct support of the infantry, as their light weight would allow them to move with the infantry. They complained that the guns were too fragile and didn't have a high enough muzzle ...
The development of the Mark V gun started during the Second World War and was intended for triple Mark 25 mountings on the projected Neptune-class cruisers.When the Neptune-class ships were cancelled in 1946, the gun was redesigned to be mounted in pairs on the new and complex Mark 26 dual purpose mounting and gun turret designed for rapid automatic fire on the projected Design Z (Minotaur ...
The tank howitzer was used to arm the Churchill Mark V and VIII, the Cromwell VI & VIII and the Centaur IV tanks. [3] The howitzer was built up from a section of a QF 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun barrel, the breech mechanism of the Ordnance QF 25 pounder field gun/howitzer and the recoil mechanism of the Ordnance QF 6 pounder anti-tank gun. [4]
Mk 6 Triple 16"/45 Gun; Mk 7 Triple 16"/50 Gun; Mk 7 Talos Missile launcher; Mk 8 Triple 12"/50 Gun; Mk 9 Terrier Missile launcher; Mk 8 Torpedo; Mk 10 Terrier Missile launcher; Mk 11 Tartar Missile launcher; Mk 12 Talos Missile launcher; Mk 13 Missile Launcher; Mk 14 torpedo; Mk 15 torpedo; Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS; Mk 16 5 inch DP (Dual Purpose ...
The first issue of Kurir appeared at newsstands on 6 May 2003. [3] While Kurir's history is relatively short, it is also a checkered one. It goes back to the state of emergency, declared following the assassination of Serbia's Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić, when another daily tabloid named Nacional was shut down.