6-pounder gun or 6-pdr, usually denotes a gun which fired a projectile of approximately 6 pounds.
Guns of this type include:
- QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss, a 57 mm naval gun of the 1880s
- QF 6 pounder 6 cwt Hotchkiss, a British 57 mm tank gun of 1917
- QF 6 pounder Nordenfelt, a 57 mm naval gun very similar to the Hotchkiss
- Ordnance QF 6 pounder, a 57 mm anti-tank and tank gun of World War II
- QF 6 pounder 10 cwt gun, a British twin mount naval and coast defence gun 1937-1956.
- QF 6 pounder 6 cwt anti-aircraft gun, a British intermediate Anti-aircraft gun project cancelled in 1945.
Famous quotes containing the word gun:
“As for fowling, during the last years that I carried a gun my excuse was that I was studying ornithology, and sought only new or rare birds. But I confess that I am now inclined to think that there is a finer way of studying ornithology than this. It requires so much closer attention to the habits of the birds, that, if for that reason only, I have been willing to omit the gun.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)