Mark XVIII explained

Mark XVIII or Mark 18 often refers to the 18th version of a product, frequently military hardware. "Mark", meaning "model" or "variant", can be abbreviated "Mk."

Mark XVIII or Mark 18 may refer to:

Technology

• De Havilland Mosquito NF Mk XVIII

a Royal Air Force night fighter radar modification

• De Havilland Mosquito FB Mk XVIII, also called Tsetse; RAF ground-attack aircraft carrying a QF 6-pounder (57 mm) anti-tank gun
• Supermarine Spitfire Mk 18

a further development of the Mk XIV, arriving too late to serve in World War II

• Mark 18 torpedo, 1944 US Navy electric torpedo
• Mark 18 nuclear bomb

1953 American nuclear bomb

• CQBR Mark 18 Mod 0; a modification of the M4 Carbine
• Mk 18 Mod 0 grenade launcher

former US Navy grenade launcher

Other uses

• Bolo Gladius model XVIII, artificially intelligent tank imagined by author Keith Laumer