284:, but early attempts to produce it in the US using US commercial mass-production techniques failed, partly due to delays in obtaining necessary French plans, and then their being incomplete or inaccurate, and partly because US industry was not equipped to work to metric measurements. By 1917 US firms had produced 851 QF 18-pounders for export to Britain. Hence production of a 75 mm version offered a simple interim solution, being basically a copy of the British QF 18-pounder rechambered for French 75 mm ammunition, utilizing existing production capacity. It remains very similar to the 18-pounder, the main visible difference being a shorter barrel with straight muzzle.
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170:75 x 350mm R
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289:World War I
278:World War I
266:World War I
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471:2017-09-05
443:References
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221:pole trail
1254:QF 3-inch
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337:Early in
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1029:77 mm HV
1014:QF 75 mm
384:See also
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183:Shrapnel
168:Fixed QF
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113:Designed
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116:1917
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