3-pounder gun
3-pounder gun, 3-pounder, 3-pdr or QF 3-pdr is an abbreviation typically referring to a gun which fired a projectile weighing approximately 3 pounds. It may refer to: • The Grasshopper cannon – of the 18th century • QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss – Hotchkiss 47 mm naval gun used by many countries from 1885 • QF 3-pounder Nordenfelt – Nordenfelt 47 mm naval gun used by many countries from 1885 • QF 3-pounder Vickers – British Vickers 47 mm naval gun of World War I and World War II • OQF 3-pounder gun – used to arm interwar Vickers Medium Tanks
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3-pounder gun
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3-pounder gun, 3-pounder, 3-pdr or QF 3-pdr is an abbreviation typically referring to a gun which fired a projectile weighing approximately 3 pounds. It may refer to: • The Grasshopper cannon – of the 18th century • QF 3-pounder Hotchkiss – Hotchkiss 47 mm naval gun used by many countries from 1885 • QF 3-pounder Nordenfelt – Nordenfelt 47 mm naval gun used by many countries from 1885 • QF 3-pounder Vickers – British Vickers 47 mm naval gun of World War I and World War II • OQF 3-pounder gun – used to arm interwar Vickers Medium Tanks
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3-pounder gun is a naval artillery or smoothbore cannon.
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