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	Ordnance QF 18 pounder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Introduced along with the smaller but otherwise similar 13-pounder in 1904, the 18-pounder was found in use on all fronts during the war.
		During the First world war, the 18 pounder was operated by the Royal Field Artillery along with the 13-pounder.
		The 18 pdr was used by the BEF in 1940, briefly in North Africa, and in the Far East until 1
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ordnance_QF_18_pounder (309 words)

	Ordnance QF 6 pounder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ordnance QF 6-pounder 7 cwt, or just "6 pdr", was a British 57 mm gun, their primary anti-tank gun during the middle of World War II.
		Limitations of the existing 2 pounders were apparent even as the gun was first entering service, and an effort was started to replace it with a much more capable QF weapon starting as early as 1938.
		Instead the 6 pounder was followed into service by the next generation British anti-tank gun, the 17 pounder which aside from a small batch in 1942 to fight the Tigers, came into use from 1943.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ordnance_QF_6_pounder (642 words)

	ORDNANCE - LoveToKnow Article on ORDNANCE
		In England the MasterGeneral of the Ordnance, from Henry VIII.s time, was head of a board, partly military, partly civil, which managed all affairs concerning the artillery, engineers and maUriel of the army; this was abolished in 1855, its duties being distributed.
		Friction tubes continued to be used with all muzzle-loading ordnance except in one or two natures with which the charge was ignited axially at the breech of the gun.
		The breech mechanism for Q.F. guns firing metallic cartridge cases is worked on similar principles, but is somewhat simpler than that for the de Bange obturation, due principally to the fact of the firing primer being already contained in the cartridge case when this is introduced into the gun.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OR/ORDNANCE.htm (19188 words)

	ARTILLERY - LoveToKnow Article on ARTILLERY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Later the total of captured ordnance reached 180, yet m e Russians, then almost wholly in flight, were not cut to pieces, an only a few light guns of the Prussian army could get to the fom int; their heavy pieces, though twelve horses were harnessed gr each, never came into action.
		But since the introduction of the Q.F. ar n it has been universally recognized that the gun must have ar iery liberal supply of ammunition present with it in action, and ac e old standard allowance of one wagon per gun has been m areased to that of two and even three.
		The unit consists, in the case of guns, of three p,tteries (18 guns, heavy artillery 12), in the case of field flu witzers of two batteries (f 2 howitzers), and in the horse tiilery of two batteries (12 guns), and is commanded by a 0 utenant-colonel.
	www.12.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AR/ARTILLERY.htm (13101 words)

	QF 25 pdr - One Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The design was the result of extended studies looking to replace both the 18 Pounder field gun and the 4.5 inch howitzer, which had been important weapons during the First World War.
		The basic idea was to build a single weapon with the direct-fire capability of the 18-pounder with the high-angle fire of the howitzer, firing a shell about half way between the two in size, around 3.5"-4" of about 30 pounds.
		A shaped charge version was under development in Canada, but the introduction of the 17 Pounder dedicated anti-tank gun ended its development.
	www.onelang.com /encyclopedia/index.php/25_Pounder (1000 words)

	QF 25 pdr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 25 pounder was the major United Kingdom field gun/howitzer that was introduced into service just before World War II and was the British Armys primary artillery system into the 1950s.
		The design was the result of extended studies looking to replace both the British Ordnance QF 18 pdr (75 mm) field gun and the 4.5 inch (114 mm) howitzer, which had been important weapons during the First World War.
		The basic idea was to build a single weapon with the direct-fire capability of the 18 pounder with the high-angle fire of the howitzer, firing a shell about half way between the two in size, around 3.5 to 4 in (90 to 100 mm) of about 30 pounds (14 kg).
	read-and-go.hopto.org /British-weapons/QF-25-pdr.html (1054 words)

	Tanknet > Damn The 25 Pdr!
		The 18 pdr is considered approximately equal in effectiveness to French and US 75mms (since they were they same), but WW2 US 75mm shell carried at least as much HE as the 25 pdr despite the overall shell weight being 40% less.
		Regarding putting 18 pounder tubes on 25 pounder carriages, I thought the Brits did just that early in the war when there was a shortage of 25 pounder tubes and surplus carriages.
		The 25 pdr MkI was the 18 pdr MkIV with a new 25 pdr barrel.
	www.tank-net.org /forums/lofiversion/index.php/t8524.html (6772 words)

	Channel 4 – History – Lost Generation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Mk1 used a combined charge and round in a brass case, which meant that the gun could be loaded, fired and spent shell cases ejected in rapid succession.
		Loaded with timed fused shrapnel shells weighing up to 18lbs (8.15kg) – hence the name – the gun could be fired over the heads of an oncoming enemy, resulting in air-bursting shells that brought attacks to a standstill.
		As trench warfare made the open laying of guns impractical, the QF soon became equipped with a different carriage that enabled it to reach higher elevations, similar to the Howitzers, for indirect fire.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/L/lostgeneration/ww1/heavy2.html (535 words)

	QF 4.5-in howitzer
		Following the lessons of the South African War (1899-1902)' an Ordnance Committee sat to select a howitzer to replace the BL 5-inch.
		The new piece featured a horizontal sliding block breech mechanism, the first used in a British gun except the QF 18-pr Mk 3 which did not advance beyond the experimental stage.
		Thus both the QF 18-pr and the 4.5 howitzer were superseded by the QF 25-pr.
	riv.co.nz /rnza/hist/local/qf45in.htm (606 words)

	Hartlepool's Coast Defences (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The 68 Pounder was a conventional smooth bore cannon cast from one piece of iron and would have been recognisable to seaman of earlier generations.
		The Quick Fire (QF) concept was extended to larger calibres, the effective limit being the 6" BL as at this size the ammunition was unwieldy.
		Originally the QF design called for the shell to be attached to a metal cartridge case but the idea was not really feasible until the introduction of cordite as a much smaller charge could then be used.
	www.geocities.com /rfid2000/battery-book.html (18008 words)

	Ordnance QF 17 pounder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Ordnance QF 17-pounder (or just 17-pdr) was a 76.2 mm gun developed by the United Kingdom during World War II.
		In the anti-tank role it was replaced by the 120 mm BAT recoilless rifle after the war.
		US tanks ran into their German counterparts all the time, and their smaller guns and lighter armour proved to be a serious disadvantage when facing heavier tanks such as the Panther.
	www.toshare.info /en/17-pounder.htm (973 words)

	QF 25 pounder - All About All (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Ordnance QF 25 pounder (or just 25-pounder or 25-pdr) was the major British field gun/howitzer that was introduced into service just before World War II and was the British Army's primary artillery system into the 1950s.
		The design was the result of extended studies looking to replace both the 18 pounder (75 mm) field gun and the 4.5 inch (114 mm) howitzer, which had been important weapons during the First World War.
		Development during the inter-war period was severely hampered by a lack of money, and it was eventually decided to build a "new" design from existing 18 pounders converted using new liners and pneumatic road wheels to allow towing.
	www.allaboutall.info /article/QF_25_pounder (1300 words)

	Military Strike Weapons
		It is 18 feet long, made from artillery barrels, uses 650lbs of Tritonal, and is five times more destructive than a GBU-27 2000lb.
		As for ground forces illuminating the targets for you, this is more problematic, since it is harder for the bomber to locate the target initially and the reflection is not as easily seen by the seeker.
		BRIMSTONE: 18 of these can be carried on a Harrier GR7 (AV-8b) and is a fire and forget weapon, unlike the RF Hellfire to be carried on the Longbow.
	www.combatsim.com /review.php?id=106 (3338 words)

	14 pounder qf - (1912 - 1921) V, N & G Class (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The first of these was the Maxim one-pounder (1 pdr) of the late 19th Century in with a further 2 grains of QF composition held in the jacket tip.
		1 Pounder QF round, steel projectile with 2 rotating bands and a brass fuze, brass casing, VG.
		QF Gun mountings for Belgium, 100 years back (1896), Day, J. RML's?, The last of the, A model 18 Pounder Field Gun, "Model Engineer", 1957, Walter, SA Royal Armouries: Class XXV
	www.lifeinter.com /?q=14-pounder-qf (445 words)

	Detail photos of the British 18-pounder 18 pdr QF Field Gun
		Brackenbury issued fairly stringent requirements to British industry and among his required equipments were guns for the field and horse batteries.
		As the initial call was for guns for both the horse and field batteries, the smaller gun would go to the Royal Horse Artillery and the larger gun to the Royal Artillery field batteries.
		Thus the 18pdr gun became the 18 pdr OF Gun, and it was accepted for service on June 30 1904.
	www.landships.freeservers.com /british_18pdr.htm (2676 words)

	Builders Paradise - Weapons & Order of Battle
		The 25pdr Mark 2 is continuously development of the 25pdr Mark 1.
		It became the legendary "25 Pounder Mark 2 on Mark 1 carriage", familiar to all Commonwealth Gunners who served from World War 2 to the 1960s.
		The strength of the carriage was amply demonstrated in 1943 when the first QF 17-pr anti-tank guns were mounted upon it; it easily stood up to the much more powerful piece.
	panzergeneral.strategyplanet.gamespy.com /ww2/Weapons/towed_artillery/british/gundata/25pdr_mk2.html (868 words)

	Pounder - QF 25 pounder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Light guns like the 3 pounder were not new in the Revolution.
		Actress CCH Pounder visits the Courtney Washington Fashion Studio on Fulton Street in Brooklyn, on the B. Smith with Style television show.
		The 25 pounder's main ammunition was the High Explosive (HE) shell, but it could fire Known officially as the Ordnance, Quick Firing 25 pounder Mark I, ground pounder st
	www.ehhx.com /?q=pounder (328 words)

	ATG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Ordnance QF 2-pounder (or simply "2 pounder gun") was a 40 mm British gun used both as an anti-tank gun and to equip British tanks of the early part of the Second World War.
		The QF 6-pdr 7 cwt was a British anti-tank gun of World War 2.
		It allowed the QF 25 pounder to revert to the normal artillery role.
	www.thetrainer.info /atg.htm (1933 words)

	The 25-pdr Field Gun 1939 - 1972: Part Two
		The British lost over 700 18 / 25-pdr guns in the campaign for France and the Low Countries, which the Germans readily pressed into service as the 8.76cm Feldkanone 281 (e) and 8.76cm Feldkanone 282 (e) (Mk IV and Mk IV with the VP carriage respectively).
		While all weapon systems undergo some degree of modification over their service life, either to enhance performance when new technology becomes available or to rectify problems encountered in the field, a few are so extensively modified that they are almost unrecognisable to the original.
		A good example of this is the Ordnance QF 25-pdr Short (Aust) Mk I on Carriage Light (Aust) Mks I and II.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/weapons_25pdr2.html (2868 words)

	Untitled Document
		The first of these was the Maxim one-pounder (1 pdr) of the late 19th Century in 37x94R calibre, named for the weight of the shell.
		To pass proof, seven out of ten bullets had to penetrate 18 mm of armour plate at 100 yards range at 0 (90) degrees, and 70% also had to penetrate 14 mm armour striking at 20 (70) degrees.
		Within the jacket was a steel sleeve containing 28 grains of incendiary composition with a further 2 grains of QF composition held in the jacket tip.
	www.quarry.nildram.co.uk /Vickers.html (3960 words)

	The 25-pdr Field Gun 1939 - 1972: Part One
		By 1935, a decision had been reached to refit the old 18-pdr jackets with 25-pdr ones and adapt the gun carriages with the fitting of pneumatic road wheels so that they could be towed by a vehicle.
		This rebored gun was to be fitted with the larger bore rifled liner and became the first of the 25-pdr series, the Ordnance QF 25-pdr Mk I. The relining of the barrel was possible because the 18-pdr barrel was made up of a number of parts:
		The Mk II was a very different weapon to the Mk I (also known as the 18 / 25-pdr) but was in development at about the same time the 18-pdrs were being converted to the new ammunition.
	www.rickard.karoo.net /articles/weapons_25pdr1.html (3757 words)

	Hieronymus Blogsch - the Journal and Log for Randy J. Ray
		Since posting the first part of this project, two good things have happened: firstly, a friend with a much better camera than I had was willing to take some snaps for me, all of which came out considerably clearer than my Ricoh 4200 was capable of.
		The "Two-Pounder" was the general anti-tank ordnance for the British forces at the outset of World War II.
		Like the U.S. and German 37mm AT weapons (the 2lb was a 40mm calibre), it was practically out-classed against the armor of tanks before the war even started.
	www.rjray.org /hobby/modeling (1896 words)

	Military History Books - online military history bookshop
		The British 25 Pounder (so-named for its nominal weight of shell) was a linear outgrowth of the pre-WWI 13-pounder and its much-improved 18-pounder replacement.
		The standard version, the Ordnance QF 25-lb Mark II on Mark I carriage, was the standard field gun for Commonwealth forces during WWII.
		Using a new ordnance factory at Sorel, Quebec, the 25-lb gun went into production in Canada in 1940, with the first guns delivered in July 1941.
	www.tmhbs.com /h_highlights_04_jun_05.asp (492 words)

	IMO Discussion Board - Irish artillery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		There were three batteries around Dublin at North Bull, Sandycove and Dun Laoghaire (which has 2 x 12 pounder guns - I think that it them being firing in the picture on military.ie).
		The Royal British Ordnance QF 25 Pounder has been in DF service since 1949.
		Variants in use are Mk II/1, Mk III/I and Mk IV/I, all on the Mk I carriage.
	www.irishmilitaryonline.com /board/printthread.php?t=5638 (1446 words)

	Nocturnal Defense of Great Britain in the First World War
		With two 100-hp Anzani air-cooled radial engines, it was supposed to reach 75 mph and manage patrols of 9 to 18 hours.
		The more sophisticated design, the 37-mm "C.O.W. gun" from the Coventry Ordnance Works was a pre-war invention, but development was so protracted that it failed to see service use before 1918.
		The second weapon was a 19th-century gun created by Hiram Maxim himself, the 1-pounder Maxim QF, better known as the Pom-Pom, for its distinctive sound.
	www.worldatwar.net /chandelle/v4/v4n1-2/ww1nite.html (5486 words)

	Actions, Damage & Losses
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		she left for Mexico on 18 November 1835, and there were no fears entertained for her safety...
	www.falmouth.packet.archives.dial.pipex.com /id24.htm (6121 words)

	List of artillery: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/list_of_artillery (8278 words)

	missing-lynx.com - Reviews - 'Weapons of War' Series: The 25-Pounder in Canadian Service
		All four were by far and away the most used weapons of their type by their respective nations, and provided most of the "on-call" artillery fire support for their troops.
		The standard version, the Ordnance QF 25-lb Mark II on Mark I carriage, was the standard field gun for Commonwealth forces during WWII and long afterwards, until NATO called for standardization on 105mm and 155mm as divisional calibers in the mid 1950s.
		Doug covers the entire production history of the weapon as well as a great deal of other information, including regimental organization and function, crew organization and function, and some items on both the well-known No. 27 limber (a leftover from horsedrawn days according to all who used it) and the FAT – field artillery tractor.
	www.missing-lynx.com /reviews/modern/cwow_25drcanad_csewell.html (753 words)

	Books on Artillery
		Based on the authors’ years of experience of the militaria marketplace, it is accurate, up-to-date and informative.All items shown were photographed at arms and militaria fairsin the UK, USA and Europe.
		The QF guns and limbers of the Boer and First World War era.
		Covered are the variety of guns and ordnance used during the pre-World War I period.
	www.chrisevansbooks.com /artly.html (4289 words)

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