Mark VIII

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Mark VIII or Mark 8 often refers to the eighth version of a product, frequently military hardware. "Mark", meaning "model" or "variant", can be abbreviated "Mk."

Mark VIII or Mark 8 can specifically refer to:

In technology

In military and weaponry

  • Mark 8 torpedo (1911); American 21-inch torpedo designed by Bliss-Leavitt.
  • 18 inch Mark VIII torpedo; a British 18-inch wet-heater torpedo that began service in 1913
  • Tank Mark VIII, also known as the "Liberty" or "International tank"; an Anglo-American tank design of the late World War I
  • BL 8 inch Howitzer Mk 8 (1916); British 8-inch artillery piece used in WWI and early WWII
  • 21-inch Mark VIII torpedo; a common British 21-inch torpedo that began service in 1927, saw extensive use in WWII and was used as late as 1982 to sink the ARA General Belgrano
  • QF 2-pounder Mark VIII (1930-1940s), also known as the "pom-pom"; a quick-firing British naval anti-aircraft gun
  • Japanese naval aerial bomb color code Mark 8; a green-brown-grey color code denoting an anti-shipping skip bomb
  • Tank, Cruiser, Mk VIII, Cromwell (A27M) (1943), also known as the Cromwell tank; the most numerous British cruiser tank in WWII
  • Light Tank Mk VIII (1943), also known as the "Harry Hopkins", a British light tank
  • Handley Page Halifax C Mk VIII (1944); unarmed cargo and passenger plane variant on the British bomber design
  • Supermarine Spitfire Mk VIII; 1944 British fighter aircraft in overseas service, the third-most numerous Spitfire variant
  • Mark 8 nuclear bomb (1952-1957); an American nuclear bomb
  • Mark 8 Landing Craft Tank, a landing craft operated by the British military from the end of World War II to the 1970s

Other vehicles

  • Jaguar Mark VIII (1956-1958), a British sports sedan
  • Lincoln Continental Mark VIII (1993-1998), an American personal luxury car

Other technologies

  • Sumlock ANITA Mk VIII calculator (1961); a British desktop calculator with Nixie-type tube display
  • Mark-8 (1974); an early 8-bit minicomputer kit based on the Intel 8008 CPU

Other uses

  • Mark 8 or Mark VIII, the eighth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible

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