![]() Service (Army) guns made which were scrapped in 1944-45. That 6,691 guns were made in Britain including 12 prototypes and a furtherĨ43 guns were manufactured in Canada. War II, with total production being about twice the number of BoforsĤ0 mm guns used by the Royal Navy. These guns were manufactured in large numbers throughout World It should be noted that standardization was never a high priority in British Were also several other gun variations, as shown in the data tables below. Velocity and low velocity ammunition and guns were not interchangeable. Projectiles were still manufactured throughout World War II. However, guns firing only the older low-velocity In 1938 but this required a different breech mechanism and other changes To remedy some of these issues, a higher velocity projectile (HV) was introduced Lacked a satisfactory explosive shell and no tracer ammunition was provided. ![]() In aircraft design had rendered it obsolescent, as it had a low muzzle velocity, In 1930 this was a very advanced weapon, but by 1939 the rapid improvements Production was slow up until just before the Year saw Furious and Royal Sovereign each receiving two mountings while The Treasury to increase funding and during 1931 Nelson, Rodney and RevengeĮach received one mounting while Hood received two. Satisfactory completion of trials on Valiant encouraged Was delayed to the end of 1930 and consisted of a single mounting installed Sea trials aboard HMS Tiger not being held until 1928. Lack of funding delayed proving ground firing trials out to 1927, with Vickers won the contract and presented anĮight-gun mockup for examination in July 1923 at Vickers, Dartford. While the Vickers design did not, but the Armstrong product was also a Armstrong produced a design that allowed continuous fire This was modestly successful, and asĪ result design work was begun by Vickers and Armstrong on various multiple-gunĭesigns. It started off when six 2-pdr Mark II guns were mounted on a common base ![]() This weapon had a long development history. The 2-pdr shell was selected for this weapon was because there were aboutĢ,000,000 rounds left over from the First World War. ![]() It has been speculated that the reason that Same barrel as the previous weapon, but the new design did have an improvedĪutomatic mechanism and replaced fabric belts with steel-links belts which reduced This weapon was essentially a redesign of the 2-pdr ![]()
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