Editing Hawker Tempest (section)

==== 47 mm anti tank gun trials{{anchor|Vickers 47 mm Class P}} ====
[[File:47mm P.jpg|thumb|Tempest ''SN354'', outfitted with experimental 47&nbsp;mm class P guns and standard smaller four-spoke wheels.]]

Tempest V ''SN354'' was fitted with two experimental underwing Class P 47 mm guns (built by [[Vickers-Armstrongs|Vickers]]) just after the war.<ref name="Williams, A. G.">{{cite web|last=Williams |first= A. G. |url=http://www.quarryhs.co.uk/Pgun.htm |title=The RAF'S 47 mm Class P Gun Project |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319192518/http://quarryhs.co.uk/Pgun.htm |archive-date=19 March 2016 |website=quarry.nildram.co.uk |accessdate= 16 March 2012}}</ref><ref name=Mason67_13>Mason 1967, p. 13.</ref>{{efn|The weapon has been misidentified as a 40 mm cannon in many references, such as Mason 1991.<ref name=Mason91_336>Mason 1991, p. 336.</ref>}} These guns were part of a project started in mid-1942 to develop a more powerful airborne [[anti-tank gun]] than the [[Vickers 40 mm Class S gun]] which had been used on the Hurricane IID.<ref name="Williams, A. G."/>{{efn|Vickers, Rolls-Royce and the [[War Office]] Design Department produced competing designs but Rolls Royce stopped work before completing a weapon<ref name="Williams, A. G."/> }} The Vickers guns were housed in long slim streamlined [[gun pod]]s carried on the bomb racks<ref name="hawkertempest.se/armament"/> and had 38 rounds each.<ref>http://i.imgur.com/brlZOwU.png {{Bare URL image|date=March 2022}}</ref> Surviving photographs suggests that the 20&nbsp;mm wing guns were removed for this installation. Testing of the guns revealed that the weapon had potential, but no production was undertaken.<ref name="hawkertempest.se/armament"/>