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editUSS Beatty in 1943 had a weapon on board known as a K gun, could this and the Vickers K machine gun be the same weapon? If so than I guess it was not just the RN who used them.--$1LENCE D00600D (talk) 05:32, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
- The K gun was a type of depth charge thrower - see Depth_charge#Delivery_mechanisms. Some ships would also have a "K" gun position. GraemeLeggett (talk) 06:00, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
- This article is about a small caliber aircraft machine gun while the naval K-Gun (which replaced the earlier Y-Gun, no manufacturer's name specified) is a 3" mortar so definitely not related.NiD.29 (talk) 00:06, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
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editIf it was a British gun and called the Vickers GO in British service, who called it the Vickers K? Cyclopaedic (talk) 13:16, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
- K was obviously a manufacturer designation, GO looks like an Army designation. Or the designation was changed at some time to separate it from the older type guns. --Denniss (talk) 14:21, 12 February 2016 (UTC)