QF 25 pounder

The 25-inch QF Gun was the most widely used by the British Army and Commonwealth armies during WWII.

Its success was due to the fact that it was a gun, reliable, durable and easy to use. The two most significant characteristics of this gun were: on the one hand the circular base platform that served both to absorb the recoil and to facilitate the rotation of the weapon to fire in any direction, and on the other hand its ammunition trailer with which it build a tandem for transportation.

It was an 87.6 mm (3.45 in) caliber gun of which over 13,000 units were produced throughout the war, mainly in the UK at the Vickers-Armstrongs, Baker Perkins and Wird plants, although also some units were built in Canada and even Australia.