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• BL 6 inch Mk XI naval gun
  |wars=[[World War I]] [[World War II]] ...0 yards @ 22.5° elevation as coast defence gun, quoted by Spethman, 2008. Guns in naval use had lower elevation and hence shorter range.</ref>
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• BL 6 inch gun Mk II – VI
  ...f>These weights include additional weight of hoops added to strengthen the guns. Treatise on Service Ordnance 1893; Text Book of Gunnery 1902</ref> ...gfig=3}}<ref>BLC guns used a {{convert|20|lb|15|oz|kg|abbr=on}} cordite Mk I charge for a muzzle volocity of {{convert|2166|ft/s|m/s|abbr=on}}, or MD si
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• BL 7.5 inch Mk II – V naval gun
  |image=[[File:BL 7.5 inch Mk V guns for HMS Shannon Vickers Works LOC ggbain 19618.jpg|300px]] |wars=[[World War I]]
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• BL 8 inch Mk VIII naval gun
  |caption=Mk VIII guns in X and Y Mk I turrets aboard {{HMS|Kent|54|6}} |wars=[[Second World War]]
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• BL 9.2 inch Mk XI naval gun
  |image=[[File:HMS Defence Stern 9.2 inch guns trained to port.jpg]] |caption=Aft guns of [[HMS Defence (1907)|HMS ''Defence'']] trained to port
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• BL 9.2 inch gun Mk IX – X
  ...It has the distinctive box-shaped gunhouse widely used with it in [[World War II]] ...f Munitions 1922, Volume X, Part 1, page 73. Facsimile reprint by Imperial War Museum and Naval & Military Press 2008. ISBN 1 847348 84 X</ref>
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• BL 9.2 inch gun Mk I – VII
  |name= Ordnance BL 9.2 inch gun Mk I - Mk VII |wars=[[World War I]]
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• Bofors 37 mm
  ...European armies during [[World War II]], mainly at the early stage of the war. ...its returning to their homeland brought with them a few Swedish model 1938 guns.
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• Bofors 40 mm
  ...r]], [[South African Border War]], [[Falklands War]], [[Gulf War]], [[Iraq War]] ...ems during [[World War II]], used by most of the western [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] as well as various other forces. It is often referred to simply
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• Breda Model 35
  .../www.jaegerplatoon.net/AA_GUNS1.htm FINNISH ARMY 1918 - 1945: ANTIAIRCRAFT GUNS PART 1<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref><br>{{flag|Nazi Germany|name=Germa |wars=[[Spanish Civil War]], [[World War II]]
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• Cannone da 75/46 C.A. modello 34
  ...dello 34''' was an [[Italy|Italian]] anti-aircraft gun used during [[World War II]]. The designation means it had a caliber of 75 mm, the barrel was 46 ca In German use it was renamed '''7.5-cm Flak 264/3(i)'''.
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• Cannone da 90/53
  ...ne of the most successful anti-aircraft guns to see service during [[World War II]]. It was used both in an anti-aircraft role and as an anti-tank gun. Th ...ducing these quantities and by the end of production in July 1943 only 539 guns had been delivered, including 48 converted for use on the [[Semovente 90/53
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• EOC 10 inch /45 naval gun
  |wars=[[World War I]] ...uip ships they built and/or armed for several countries before [[World War I]].
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• EOC 12 inch/45 naval gun
  |wars=[[World War I]] ...uip ships they built and/or armed for several countries before [[World War I]].
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• EOC 14 inch /45 naval gun
  |wars=[[World War I]] ...uip ships they built and/or armed for several countries before [[World War I]].
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• Gyro Rate Unit
  ...e setting of the [[anti-aircraft guns]], to hit the target. The HACS marks I through IV depended upon the control officer inputting to the computer<ref> ...rent speed for a short interval of time, equal to the loading cycle of the guns, in advance of the actual time and feed this to the HACS computer allowing
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• Hispano-Suiza HS.404
  |wars=World War II |wars=World War II, Korean War
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• List of naval anti-aircraft guns
  ...raft gun]]s specially designed or adapted for mounting on ships, and naval guns adapted for high-angle fire. Today they have been largely superseded by [[s | 20 mm || [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon]] || {{CHE}} || World War II
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• M2 Browning machine gun
  ...r on Terror]] ([[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan]], [[Iraq War|Iraq]]) ...Deuce" is a [[heavy machine gun]] designed towards the end of [[World War I]] by [[John Browning]]. It is very similar in design to John Browning's ear
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• MG 151 cannon
  |wars= World War II |wars= World War II
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• MG FF cannon
  |wars= [[World War II]] ...the German [[Luftwaffe]], particularly during the early stages of [[World War II]], although from 1941 onwards it was gradually replaced by the 20&nbsp;m
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• Oerlikon 20 mm cannon
  |wars=[[World War II]] |design_date=[[World War I]]
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• Ordnance QF 2 pounder
  {{About|the World War II tank and anti-tank gun|the anti-aircraft "pom-pom" autocannon|QF 2 pound |wars=World War II
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• Ordnance QF 3 pounder Vickers
  |variants=Mk I Mk II ...eel shells as the Hotchkiss.<ref>Treatise on ammunition 10th Edition 1915. War Office, UK. Page 404</ref>
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• Pom-Pom Director
  ...culty in aiming the mounting due to the smoke and vibration created by the guns. It was, therefore, essential to aim the mount from a remote location, usin ==The Pom-Pom Director Mark I - III==
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• QF 12 pounder 12 cwt naval gun
  ...[Boxer Rebellion]]<br>[[Russo-Japanese War]]<br>[[World War I]]<br>[[World War II]] ...ritish service in 1902, using {{convert|1|lb|15|oz|kg|abbr=on}} cordite Mk I size 15 propellant (Text Book of Gunnery 1902); {{convert|2258|ft/s|m/s|abb
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• QF 12 pounder 18 cwt naval gun
  |image=[[File:QF 12 pdr 18 cwt guns for HMS Shannon Vickers Works LOC ggbain 19618.jpg|300px]] |wars=[[World War I]]
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• QF 14 pounder Maxim-Nordenfelt naval gun
  |wars=[[World War I]] |manufacturer=[[Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company|Maxim-Nordenfelt]]
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• QF 1 pounder pom-pom
  |name= QF 1 pdr Mark I & II ("pom-pom") |caption= Mk II dated 1903 at the Imperial War Museum, London
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• QF 2 pounder naval gun
  {{about|the anti-aircraft autocannon|the World War II anti-tank gun|Ordnance QF 2 pounder}} |wars=[[World War I]]<br>[[World War II]]
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• QF 3.7 inch AA gun
  |wars= [[World War II]] ...ly larger calibre of 94&nbsp;mm. It remained in use after the war until AA guns were replaced by [[guided missile]]s in the late 1950s.
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• QF 3 inch 20 cwt
  |caption=Egyptian gun captured by Israel in the 1956 war. |wars=[[World War I]] [[World War II]]
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• QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss
  ...ders.jpg|thumb|left|<center>[[HMS Majestic (1895)|HMS Majestic]] showing 7 guns mounted in [[crow's nest]]s circa. 1897</center>]] ...nt vessels used for auxiliary duties in [[World War II]], or as subcalibre guns for gunnery practice until the 1950s. Early in WWII it was also pressed int
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• QF 4.5 inch Mk I – V naval gun
  ...he early 45-[[Caliber#Caliber as measurement of length|calibre]] family of guns up to the 1970s. For the current unrelated 55-calibre Royal Navy gun, see [ Like all British nominally 4.5&nbsp;inch naval guns, the QF Mk I has an actual calibre of 4.45&nbsp;inches (113&nbsp;mm)<ref>Jane's Ammuniti
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• QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I–IV
  |name=QF 4.7 inch Gun Mk I - IV |wars=[[Second Boer War]]<br>[[World War I]]
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• QF 4.7 inch Mk V naval gun
  |wars=[[World War I]]<br>[[World War II]] ...d not adopt the gun, but several were adopted by the army as coast defence guns around the United Kingdom from 1900 onwards<ref Name=Hogg&Thurston1972Page1
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• QF 4 inch Mk V naval gun
  |caption=[[British ordnance terms#HA|HA]] gun in action during [[World War II]] |wars=[[World War I]]<br>[[World War II]]
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• QF 4 inch naval gun Mk IV, XII, XXII
  |caption=Mk IV gun from [[HMS Lance (1914)|HMS ''Lance'']] at the Imperial War Museum, London |wars= [[World War I]]<br>[[World War II]]
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• QF 4 inch naval gun Mk I – III
  |name= Ordnance QF 4-inch gun Mk I, II, III |image=[[File:AIF troops with QF 4 inch Mk I-III gun 1914 AWM P00326.017.jpeg|300px]]
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• QF 5.25 inch Mark I naval gun
  | name = QF 5.25 inch Mark I | image = [[Image:HMS Sirius guns.jpg|300px]]
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• QF 6 inch /40 naval gun
  |wars= [[Russo-Japanese War]]<br>[[World War I]] ...as the '''[[List of British ordnance terms#QF|QF]] 6 inch MK I, II, III''' guns.
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• QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss
  {{otheruses4|the 1880s Hotchkiss gun|the World War II anti-tank and Molins Class M gun|Ordnance QF 6 pounder}} ...r I]]<br>[[Russian Civil War]],<br>[[Second Sino-Japanese War]]<br>[[World War II]]<br>[[Cod Wars]]
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• QF 6 pounder Nordenfelt
  |manufacturer=Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company<br>[[Maxim Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company|Maxim-Nordenfelt]] ...tification gun, which was used to arm the German [[A7V]] tank in World War I.
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• RML 9 inch 12 ton gun
  |variants=Mk I - VI |cartridge=Mk I - V : {{convert|250|to|256|lb|kg|sigfig=4}} [[Palliser shot|Palliser]], [[B
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• ShVAK cannon
  ...t including [[Yakovlev Yak-1]], [[Polikarpov I-153]] and [[Polikarpov I-16|I-16]], [[Lavochkin La-5]] and [[Lavochkin La-7|La-7]], [[Lavochkin-Gorbunov- ...AS]] machine gun. Plant INZ-2 began production of 12.7-mm of ShVak machine guns in 1935. During 1935-1936 12.7-mm ShKAS machine gun was rechambered to a 2
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• Ship gun fire-control systems
  ...destroyer escorts or escort carriers) employed GFCS for 5 inch and larger guns, up to battleships such as the [[Armament of the Iowa class battleship|USS For the US, the brains were first provided by the [[Mark I Fire Control Computer|Mark 1A Fire Control Computer]] which was an electro-
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• Type 14 10 cm AA Gun
  |used_by=[[Image:War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.svg|22x20px|border]][[Imperial Japanese |wars= [[Second Sino-Japanese War]]<br>[[World War II]]
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• Type 88 75 mm AA Gun
  |used_by=[[Image:War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.svg|22x20px|border]] [[Imperial Japanese |wars= [[Second Sino-Japanese War]], [[Soviet-Japanese Border Wars]], [[World War II]]
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• Type 11 75 mm AA Gun
  |used_by=[[Image:War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army.svg|22x20px|border]] [[Imperial Japanese |wars= [[Second Sino-Japanese War]]
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• Airspeed Oxford
  ...ting, bombing and gunnery roles throughout the [[World War II|Second World War]]. As a consequence of the outbreak of war, many thousands of Oxfords would be ordered by Britain and its allies, incl
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