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The QF 1 pounder, universally known as the pom-pom due to the sound of its discharge, [9] [10] [11] was a 37 mm British autocannon, the first of its type in the world.It was used by several countries initially as an infantry gun and later as a light anti-aircraft gun.
Ordnance QF 1½ pdr Mk III ; Type: Autocannon: Place of origin: United Kingdom: Service history; ... Their first attempt at an automatic gun was a "1-pounder" (the ...
1.457 inch Ordnance QF 2-pounder: Anti-tank gun 40 mm 1.575 inch Ordnance QF 2-pounder "pom pom" Anti-aircraft gun 40 mm 1.575 Ordnance QF 3-pounder Vickers: Naval gun 47 mm 1.85 inch Ordnance QF 6-pounder: Anti-tank gun 57 mm 2.244 inch Ordnance BL 10-pounder Mountain gun: Mountain gun 69.8 mm 2.75 inch 12-pounder (multiple types) Light field gun
During the Second Boer War, the British used Maxim machine guns, and the Boers used the QF 1-pounder, a modified Maxim, a belt-fed, water-cooled machine gun that fired explosive 1-pound (0.45 kg) rounds (smokeless ammunition) at 450 rounds per minute, which became known as the "pom-pom". [7]
The gun fired a 1.2-pound (0.54 kg) high-explosive shell at 800 feet (244 meters) per second; it also could fire an armour-piercing round at 1,000 feet (305 meters) per second. The gun ' s 40x79R cartridge was a shortened version of the naval 40x158R anti-aircraft cartridge, with the shell case reduced from 158 mm (6.22 inches) to 79 mm (3.11 ...
The gun was ideal for defending against small fast vessels such as torpedo boats and was immediately adopted by the RN as the "Ordnance QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss". [2] It was built under licence by Elswick Ordnance Company. The Royal Navy introduced the QF 4.7-inch in HMS Sharpshooter in 1889, and the QF 6-inch MK 1 in HMS Royal Sovereign ...
QF 13-pounder Mk IV AA gun; S. Škoda 7 cm K10 This page was last edited on 19 February 2024, at 07:33 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The QF 2-pounder Mark II was a larger version of the QF 1-pounder Maxim gun produced by Vickers. It was a 40 mm calibre gun with a water-cooled barrel and a Vickers-Maxim mechanism. It was ordered in 1915 by the Royal Navy as an anti-aircraft weapon for ships of cruiser size and below. The original models fired from hand-loaded fabric belts ...