hwh%aipna.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK (Howard Hughes) (06/10/89)
From: Howard Hughes <hwh%aipna.edinburgh.ac.uk@NSFNET-RELAY.AC.UK> >From article <7030@cbnews.ATT.COM>, by hall@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (john hall): > > What is a 1-pounder, 2-pounder, 6-pounder, etc? > > I understand 16", 155mm, and 50 caliber but have never > known how to correlate that with old british descriptions > for gun sizes. > 2-pounder - 40mm as fitted to British Matilda tanks 6-pounder - 57mm fairly common anti-tank gun also used on Farmille class Motor Gun Boats 17-pounder - 76.2mm/3 inch as fitted to Sherman Fireflies 25-pounder - (unknown) WWII British gun but often used as an anti-tank weapon 100-pounder - 5.5 inch WWII British field gun. Sorry to be so vague, rec.games.frp is more my field. A.