Talk:QF 1-pounder pom-pom

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Pom-pom[edit]

I may be daft, but if its so universally known as the "pom-pom" could someone please add a reason why it has this name? I've never heard of it referred to as that, and there didn't seem to be a ready explanation in the first paragraph.71.16.43.242 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 18:58, 20 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There is anecdotal evidence that Africans first hearing it in South Africa referred to its sound as pom-pom. It might be difficult to verify that, but certainly it was referred to as a pom-pom by many sources from then on, and the term seems to have been used a generic label for (relatively) slow-firing automatic weapons such as its 2-punder successor until such weapons became obsolete during World War II. You'll find many references to ships in World War II having pom-poms as anti-aircraft defences. The consensus seems to be that they were quite useless in that role, so the name may have a derogatory connotation. Rcbutcher (talk) 12:16, 21 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Because of its signature sound when firing, the "Pom Pom Pom Pom Pom" of it firing SCP 1174 (talk) 06:12, 15 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Possible American usage[edit]

Without being an expert on this weaponry, it seems possible that the United States Artillery utilized a variation of the Maxim-Nordenfelt QF gun in the Philippine-American War ca. 1899. I have not been able to discern with certainty, but contemporary sources identified the weapons as a "light rapid-fire machine gun". Radar488 (talk) 05:11, 19 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]