6-pounder gun

6-pounder gun or 6-pdr, usually denotes a 57 mm gun firing a projectile weighing approximately 6 lb.

Guns of this type include:


 * QF 6 pounder Hotchkiss, a 57 mm naval gun of the 1880s
 * QF 6 pounder 6 cwt Hotchkiss, a British 57 mm tank gun of 1917
 * QF 6 pounder Nordenfelt, a 57 mm naval gun of the 1880s very similar to the Hotchkiss
 * Ordnance QF 6 pounder, a British 57 mm anti-tank and tank gun of World War II
 * QF 6 pounder 10 cwt gun, a British twin mount naval and coast defence gun 1937–1956.