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A new type of 4.5 inch gun with a longer 55-calibre barrel, it was designed in the 1960s for the Royal Navy's new classes of frigates and destroyers.The weapon, built by Vickers Ltd Armament Division, was developed by the Royal Armament Research and Development Establishment using the Ordnance, QF 105 mm L13 of the Abbot self-propelled gun as a starting point (it used electrical primers).
QF 4.5-inch howitzer. 114 x73-86 mm R separate QF. HE shell 16 kg (35 lb) The Ordnance QF 4.5-inch howitzer was the standard British Empire field (or "light") howitzer of the First World War era. It replaced the BL 5-inch howitzer and equipped some 25% of the field artillery. It entered service in 1910 and remained in service through the ...
The QF 4.5 inch gun has been the standard medium-calibre naval gun used by the Royal Navy as a medium-range weapon capable of use against surface, aircraft and shore targets since 1938. This article covers the early 45- calibre family of guns up to the 1970s. For the later unrelated 55-calibre Royal Navy gun, see 4.5 inch Mark 8 naval gun.
37 mm kan M/98B (Finspång 37 mm naval gun L/39 model 1901) Sweden-Norway. 1900s - Cold War. 38.1 mm (1.50 in) 38 mm kan M/84 (Nordenfelt 1½In fast shooting naval gun L/43 model 1884) Sweden-Norway. 1880s - World War I. 40 mm (1.6 in) 40 mm ubakan m/32 (Bofors 40 mm submarine automatic gun L/43 model 1932)
Launch platform. Republic P-47, Lockheed P-38G Lightning, M4 Sherman, LST. The M8 was a 4.5-inch (114 mm) rocket developed and used by the United States military during World War II. Produced in the millions, it was fired from both air- and ground-based launchers; it was replaced by the M16 rocket in 1945.
The 4.5 inch gun M1 was a field gun developed in the United States in the beginning of World War II. It shared the same carriage with the 155mm howitzer M1 and fired the same ammunition as the British BL 4.5-inch medium field gun. Beginning in 1944, the weapon was used by the U.S. Army as corps -level artillery; with the end of hostilities, it ...
The 4.7 inch calibre was superseded by the 4.5 inch calibre on the Z-class destroyers in 1943. The new 4.5 inch guns all had 55-degree elevation mounts and fired a shell slightly heavier than that of 4.7-inch Mk IX and XII guns, although slightly lighter than that fired by the 4.7 inch Mk XI gun.
Surface: 16,300 yd (15,000 m) [ 3 ] AA: 28,750 ft (8,800 m) [ 2 ] Filling. Lyddite, Amatol. Filling weight. 5 pounds (2.27 kg) The QF 4 inch Mk V gun[ note 1 ] was a Royal Navy gun of World War I which was adapted on HA (i.e. high-angle) mountings to the heavy anti-aircraft role both at sea and on land, and was also used as a coast defence gun.