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Dual gauge between 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge and another similar gauge can make these bonus gauges. 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge, 1,372 mm (4 ft 6 in), (4 ft 6 in gauge railway) and; 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 + 21 ⁄ 32 in) 1,676 mm (5 ft 6 in) (The maximum bonus gauge from 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) meter gauge gauntlet tracks).
The Ordnance BL 6 inch 26cwt howitzer was a British howitzer used during World War I and World War II. The qualifier "26cwt" refers to the weight of the barrel and breech together which weighed 26 long hundredweight (1.3 t).
2 ft 6 in (762 mm) gauge railways are narrow gauge railways with track gauge of 2 ft 6 in (762 mm). This type of rail was promoted especially in the colonies of the British Empire during the second half of the nineteenth century by Thomas Hall and Everard Calthrop .
The BL 6-inch gun Mark VII (and the related Mk VIII) [h] was a British naval gun dating from 1899, which was mounted on a heavy travelling carriage in 1915 for British Army service to become one of the main heavy field guns in the First World War, and also served as one of the main coast defence guns throughout the British Empire until the 1950s.
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The 6-inch/47-caliber Mark 16 gun was used in the main batteries of several pre-war and World War II US Navy light cruisers. They were primarily mounted in triple turrets and used against surface targets. The Mark 16DP gun was a dual-purpose fitting of the Mark 16 for use against aircraft as well as surface ships.
Mod 6 was skipped and Mod 7 was an experimental Mod 4 bored out to use bag ammunition, a 1,367 cu in chamber, 1.83 in (46 mm) think faceplate added to the breech end, and a trunnion hoop added. With Mod 8, gun No. 161, a Mod 4 gun, a 30 in (760 mm) muzzle liner and muzzle bell were used and the rifling was a uniform 1/25 instead of 0 to 1/35.
The Obusier de 6 pouces Gribeauval or 6-inch howitzer was a French artillery piece and part of a system established by Jean Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval.The Old French inch (French: pouce) was 1.066 English inches long so the weapon can accurately be described as a 6.4-inch howitzer.