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The Ordnance BL 5-inch howitzer was initially introduced to provide the Royal Field Artillery with continuing explosive shell capability following the decision to concentrate on shrapnel for field guns in the 1890s.

BL5inchHowitzerCampPrewar.jpg
origin
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
type
Howitzer
used in war
Mahdist War, Second Boer War, World War I

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