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BL 5.5 inch gun

Towed artillery · Land · United Kingdom

Wikidata: British field artillery

Operators among the 24
1
Active, across the 24
75
On order, across the 24
0
In service since
1941

Catalogue entry

Designation
BL 5
First flight or launch
–
In service
1941
Retired
1980
Generation
–
Unit cost (US dollars)
not published in Wikidata
Manufacturers
–
Wikidata classes
artillery model
Identifiers
Q2936492 · factbase.org/sys/PWDP6WAY38 · Wikipedia

Dates, makers and classes from Wikidata (CC0); specifications stop at what Wikipedia and the manufacturer publish.

Operators

Each of the 24 nations that holds the platform, with its active count (variants summed). A nation that holds it with no published count shows no bar.

NationActiveReserveOn orderVariants
South Africa75

Transfers

Deliveries recorded by the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, by year, to every recipient. Derived figures only; source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database.

1951: 1601955: 61971: 41998: 24195119751998max 160
SIPRI-recorded deliveries of BL 5.5 inch gun by year

Recipients: India (160), Namibia (24), Iraq (6), Oman (4).