BLC 15-pounder gun

The Ordnance BLC 15-pounder gun was a modernised version of the obsolete BL 15-pounder 7 cwt gun, incorporating a recoil and recuperator mechanism above the barrel and a modified quicker-opening breech. It was developed to provide Territorial Force artillery brigades with a reasonably modern field gun without incurring the expense of equipping them with the newer 18-pounder. It is the gun that writers usually mean by "15-pounder gun" in World War I, but can be confused with the earlier Ordnance QF 15-pounder Ehrhardt or Ordnance BL 15-pounder, both of which fired the same shell.

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1907 — 1918  Wikimedia, Wikidata
15-pounder BLC; 15pdr BLC Field Gun; Ordnance BLC 15 pounder
length 2540 millimetre, mass 1158 kilogram, speed 484 metre per second, 
field gun, British Army, 

field gun, 

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1907 — 1918 BLC 15-pounder gun

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World War I

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Duitse artilleristen, Bestanddeelnr 158-1460

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Artillery pieces of Highland Brigade RA at St Neots 1915

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commons	image		Artillery pieces of Highland Brigade RA at St Neots 1915		Commons
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