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    The Vickers .5 inch machine gun (officially "Gun, Machine, Vickers, .5-in") also known as the Vickers .50 was a large-calibre British automatic weapon...
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    The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...
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    The 1.59-inch breech-loading Vickers Q.F. gun, Mk II was a British light artillery piece designed during World War I. Originally intended for use in trench...
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  • absorbed into the mother Vickers company, leading first to the Vickers-Maxim gun and then, after Vickers' redesign, the Vickers machine gun.[citation needed]...
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    The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States...
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    08 and the Vickers gun), as well as the American Browning Model 1917 machine gun, were all substantial weapons. The .303 inch Vickers, for example, weighed...
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    these. Machine guns diverged into heavier and lighter designs. The later model water-cooled Maxim guns and its derivatives the MG 08 and the Vickers, as...
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    British equivalent Vickers 14 inch/45 naval gun contemporary Vickers-designed Japanese equivalent DiGiulian, Tony (15 August 2008). "14"/50 (35.6 cm) Mark...
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    The 14-inch/45 caliber gun, (spoken "fourteen-inch-forty-five-caliber"[citation needed]), whose variations were known initially as the Mark 1, 2, 3, and...
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    The Vickers 6-ton tank or Vickers Mark E, also known as the "Six-tonner", was a British light tank designed in 1928 in a private project at Vickers. Though...
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    The M1919 Browning is a .30 caliber medium machine gun that was widely used during the 20th century, especially during World War II, the Korean War, and...
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    writers are usually referring to by 3-inch AA gun. The gun was based on a prewar Vickers naval 3-inch (76 mm) QF gun with modifications specified by the...
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    The QF 3.7-inch AA was Britain's primary heavy anti-aircraft gun during World War II. It was roughly the equivalent of the German Flak 8.8 cm and American...
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    The BL 15-inch Mk I, designed by Vickers, Son, and Maxim in 1912, was an enlarged version of the successful BL 13.5-inch Mk V naval gun. It was specifically...
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    The QF 5.25-inch Mark I gun was the heaviest dual-purpose gun used by the Royal Navy during the Second World War. Although considered less than completely...
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    tankette. In 1934, Vickers-Armstrongs produced, as a commercial venture, a light tracked vehicle that could be used either to carry a machine gun or to tow a...
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  • Thumbnail for QF 4.5-inch Mk I – V naval gun
    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...
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    The BL 16-inch Mark I was a British naval gun introduced in the 1920s and used on the two Nelson-class battleships. A breech-loading gun, the barrel was...
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    I-V of 8-inch howitzer, which used shortened and bored-out naval 6-inch (150 mm) gun barrels. The Vickers design, very similar to their 6-inch howitzer...
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    used them against the British, who, seeing their utility, bought guns from Vickers, which had acquired Maxim-Nordenfelt in 1897. During the First World...
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    The Vickers 40 mm Class S gun, also known simply as the Vickers S or S gun, was a 40 mm (1.57 in) airborne autocannon designed by Vickers-Armstrongs for...
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  • Thumbnail for BL 9.2-inch Mk IX – X naval gun
    The BL 9.2-inch Mk IX and Mk X guns were British breech loading 9.2-inch (234 mm) guns of 46.7 calibre, in service from 1899 to the 1950s as naval and...
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    by Vickers, the .303 inch (7.7 mm) or .50 inch (12.7 mm) Vickers machine guns, were both rejected, the heavier French 13.2 mm Hotchkiss machine gun being...
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    originally built by Vickers for Brazil but which Brazil could not pay for. These were each equipped with two Vickers 6-inch 50-calibre guns in a twin turret...
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    increased to 336 machine guns per regiment by 1919. Heavy guns based on the Maxim such as the Vickers machine gun were joined by many other machine weapons, which...
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    to collaborate to produce a composite design. This used the Armstrong gun, Vickers' recoil system, and Royal Ordnance Factory's sighting and elevating gear...
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    machine gun bullets, and its armament consisted of one water-cooled .303 inch (7.7 mm) Vickers machine gun and one .50 inch (12.7 mm) Vickers machine...
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    tanks at most and as such armament was a machine gun only—Vickers machine guns firing either a .303 inch or .0.5 inch (12.7 mm) round. Suspension was Horstmann...
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  • submachine gun Lee–Enfield No.1 Mk III* (Standard issue rifle) Pattern 1914 Enfield Bren light machine gun Lewis gun Vickers machine gun Vickers-Berthier...
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  • Company and The Metropolitan-Vickers Company were not included in the merger. Vickers manufactured and sold the Maxim machine gun, forming a partnership with...
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