The QF 6-pdr 7 cwt was a British anti-tank gun of World War 2. It was first used in North Africa in April 1942. It allowed the QF 25 pdr to revert to the normal artillery role. The 25 pounder was the major British field gun/howitzer that was introduced into service just before World War II and was the British Armys primary artillery system into the 1950s. ...
The design process had started with in 1938. The gun design was completed by 1940, but the carriage was not complete until 1941. A new production line was built rather than lose 2 pounder production.
Penetration: 60 to 140mm at 1000 yards depending on shell/gun combination
Crew: 6
Weight: including Carriage: 2520 lbs
Traverse: 45 degrees left and right of centre.
The gun carriage was split trail type with a large gun shield. Associated Press logo This article concerns the news service. ... Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot is a type of shell used to combat heavy vehicles. ...
Variants
Mk 2 - original version
Mk 3 - tank version of Mk 2
Mk 4 - longer barrel, single baffle muzzle brake.
Mk 5 - tank version of Mk 4
Airlanding - modified axle to fit in Horsa glider.
57-mm M1 - US built Mk IV without muzzlebrake
Molins gun - automatic loader version as fitted to RAF Mosquito planes.
The Ordnance QF 6-pounder 7 cwt, or just "6pdr", was a British 57 mm gun, their primary anti-tank gun during the middle of World War II, as well as the main armament for a number of tanks.
Instead the 6 pounder was followed into service by the next generation British anti-tank gun, the 17 pounder which aside from a small batch in 1942 to fight the Tigers, came into use from 1943.
QF6 pounder anti-tank gun in Batey ha-Osef museum, Israel.
All the RML guns were to be removed together with the 6pdrQF these latter were to be replaced by 12 pdrQF; the 9.2-inch gun was to be substituted for the 10-inch BL so that Fort Camden would receive two 9.2-inch BL, two 6 inch BL and three 12 pdr.
QF guns with one of the RML positions surviving intact, on the southern flank of this battery and at a higher level is Upper Practice Battery for two guns.
QF battery which is now invisible due to vegetation, in front of this battery were three searchlights that covered the minefield and operated in conjunction with the two on the opposite side of the harbour entrance at Fort Camden.
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