High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The QF 5.25 inch Mark I gun was the heaviest dual-purpose gun used by the Royal Navy. Although it was a less than completely successful design, it saw extensive service during the Second World War. The QF (quick-firing) 5.25 inch was designed to be a dual-purpose naval gun, for use against ships and aircraft. Combining the secondaries and heavy anti-aircraft armament would allow a significant savings of weight for the King George V class of battleships, which were originally intended to meet the Washington Naval Treaty limit of 35,000 tons. The gun fired an 80 pound shell, considered the largest that a gun crew could handle easily enough to give the rate of fire needed for anti-aircraft use. A class of anti-aircraft cruisers, the Dido class, was also designed using the gun as the main armament. 267 were built, making it the most numerous and important gun in the RN's dual purpose gun inventory. Not enough were available when the first Didos were launched for the full complement of ten guns; priority was given to the battleships.

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