The British developed their own SPAAGs throughout the war mounting multiple machine guns and light cannon on various tank and armoured car chassis and by 1943, the Crusader AA tanks, which mounted the Bofors 40 mm gun or two-three Oerlikon 20 mm cannon.

Henry Maudslay, who trained a school of machine tool makers early in the 19th century, was employed at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, as a young man where he would have seen the large horse-driven wooden machines for cannon boring made and worked by the Verbruggans.

Its steeply-sloped front armour offered full protection against NATO's standard. 50 calibre machine gun and partial protection against 20 millimetre Oerlikon cannon both in a 60 degree frontal arc, while its 73 mm gun and ATGM were a threat to NATO APCs and even MBTs.

Many aircraft were equipped with machine cannon, and similar cannon ( nicknamed " Pom-pom guns ") were used as antiaircraft weapons.

Each vehicle would alternate its machine guns and / or cannon to the left or right respectively, firing continuously to cover the flanks on both sides of the column and suppress enemy counterfire.

One machine was stationed near the cannon itself, so it could record the actual firing.

During the course of the war Vickers would produce 4 ships of the line, 3 cruisers, 53 submarines, 3 auxiliary vessels, 62 light vessels, 2, 328 cannon, 8, 000, 000 tonnes of steel ordnance, 90, 000 mines, 22, 000 torpedoes, 5, 500 airplanes and 100, 000 machine guns.

Some of Murdoch's other minor inventions and experiments were: a machine developed in 1784 or 1785 in Cornwall for drilling wooden pipes, ( in 1810 this was further developed and patented for stone pipes ), a steam cannon which he attempted to use in 1803 to knock down a wall at Soho, a steam gun in the same year which fired 3 cm lead bullets, and machinery to grind and compress peat moss under great pressure to produce a material with " the appearance of the finest Jet ".

Under the command of the British minister to China, Claude Maxwell MacDonald, the legation staff and security personnel defended the compound with small arms, three machine guns, and one old muzzle-loaded cannon, which was nicknamed the International Gun because the barrel was British, the carriage Italian, the shells Russian, and the crew American.

It had occupied the entire Flaucourt plateau ( which constituted the principal defence of Péronne ) while taking 12, 000 prisoners, 85 cannon, 26 minenwerfers, 100 machine guns, and other assorted materials, all with relatively minimal losses.

Monturiol's other inventions included a system for copying letters, a continuous printer, a rapid-firing cannon, a system to enhance the performance of steam generators, a stone cutter, a method for preserving meat, and a machine for making cigarettes.

Armed with six. 303 inch machine guns, four 20 mm cannon and an assortment of bombs and rockets, the Beaufighter was potent in the anti-ship and ground attack role in the Pacific and Europe.

* He 111 H-16: Fitted with Jumo 211 F-2 engines and increased defensive armament of MG 131 machine guns, twin MG 81Zs, and a MG FF cannon.

| guns = 1 x 20mm MG FF cannon and 2 x 7. 92mm MG 17 machine guns or 20mm MG 151 cannons

While machine guns and cannon were sufficient against infantry and light vehicles, for operations against tanks heavier weapons were needed such as the 40 mm Vickers S gun which equipped the Hawker Hurricane to good effect in North Africa Campaign ( notably No. 6 Squadron RAF ).

Without hesitation, alone and unaided, he repeatedly attacked this enemy formation, at close range in the face of intense combined machine gun and cannon fire.

* KV-85 – A KV-1S with the 85mm D-5T cannon in a new turret, with the ball mounted hull machine gun removed and the hole welded shut, 148 of these tanks were produced in the second half of 1943 until the spring of 1944 as a stopgap until the IS tank series entered production.

The Model 1933, with a new single cylindrical turret carrying one 45 mm cannon and one 7. 62 mm machine gun, would become the most common T-26 variant.

As an auxiliary weapon in the main turret, to the right of the cannon, the 7. 62mm DT machine gun was placed autonomously in a ball setting.

In each of the two diagonally-mounted ( i. e., one in the right forward quarter and another in the diagonally-opposite left rear quarter, as viewed from behind ) two-seater turrets was placed one 45mm tank cannon obr. 1932 and a coaxially-mounted 7. 62mm DT machine gun.

The 76. 2mm cannon had 96 rounds, the 45mm guns had 226 rounds, and the DT machine guns had 10, 080 cartridges.

This included a slow infantry tank, armed with a small-caliber cannon and several machine guns.

Identifying the danger this posed to the French flagship, Captain Hallowell directed his gun crews to fire their cannon directly into the blaze.

Any large, smoothbore, muzzle-loading gun — used before the advent of breech-loading, rifled guns — may be referred to as a cannon, though once standardized names were assigned to different sized cannons, the term specifically referred to a gun designed to fire a shot, as opposed to a demi-cannon-, culverin-, or demi-culverin-.

When referring to cannon, the term gun is often used incorrectly.

In military usage, a gun is a cannon with a high muzzle velocity and a flat trajectory, useful for hitting the sides of targets such as walls, as opposed to howitzers or mortars, which have lower muzzle velocities, and fire indirectly, lobbing shells up and over obstacles to hit the target from above.

For example, the Panzer III was originally designed with a 37 mm gun, but was mass produced with a 50 mm cannon.

To counter the threat of the Russian T-34s, another, more powerful 50 mm gun was introduced, only to give way to a larger 75 mm cannon, which was in a fixed mount as the StuG III, the most-produced German World War II armored fighting vehicle of any type.

More crucial to the operations of the German military was Krupp's development of the famed 88 mm anti-aircraft cannon which found use as a notoriously effective anti-tank gun.

The term long gun is used to describe classes of firearm and cannon with longer barrels than other classes.

In historical navy usage, a long gun was the standard type of cannon mounted by a sailing vessel, called such to distinguish it from the much shorter carronades.

** 2 × 20 mm Type 99 cannon in the wings, with 60 rounds per gun.

* 1338 – The Battle of Arnemuiden was the first naval battle of the Hundred Years ' War and the first naval battle using artillery, as the English ship Christofer had three cannon and one hand gun.

Most notably, the long barreled 155 mm M185 cannon in the M178 gun mount, ballistic protection for the panoramic telescope, counterbalanced travel lock, and the ability to mount the M140 alignment device.

The main improvement was replacing the M126 series gun with the longer 52-caliber cannon from the PzH 2000, thus the MTLS ammunition of the PzH 2000 can be used.

The Ford MGM-51 Shillelagh was an American anti-tank guided missile designed to be launched from a conventional gun ( cannon ).

File: British gun, skansin ( Faroe Islands ). jpg | The British cannon at Skansin

The mitrailleuse was mounted on an artillery gun carriage and grouped in batteries in a similar fashion to cannon.

Firing a contact-detonated shell filled with zinc balls and explosives, the Krupp gun had a range of and blistering rate of fire compared to the French bronze muzzle loading cannon.

If the recordist requires a volley of cannon fire, he may contact historical re-enactors or gun enthusiasts.

There were several defensive cannon gun battery units around the island perimeter.

While on Earth, Professor Bernardo de la Paz purchases a small brass cannon, originally a " signal gun " of the kind used in yacht racing.