60 Pounder Gun |
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Thursday, 01 January 2009 14:25 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The 60 Pounder Gun
The 60 Pounder can be dated back before the First World War were it had been developed as an improvement of the naval 4.7" guns used on field carriages in South Africa. By the beginning of the Second World War some of the guns were still in service but were obviously obsolete and were to be replaced with the 4.5" and 5.5" medium guns. Production of these new weapons were slow and so the 60 Pounder remained in service, some were used in North Africa and were still being used as training equipment until the end of 1944. 60 Pounder Gun characteristics
Ammunition data
Production and conversion of 60pdr equipment (UK only) *No ammunition data listed past June 1940
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