Mark XV explained

Mark XV or Mark 15 often refers to the 15th version of a product, frequently military hardware. "Mark", meaning "model" or "variant", can be abbreviated "Mk."

Mark XV or Mark 15 may refer to:

Technology

• Mark 15 torpedo, 1930 US Navy weapon plagued with development problems in World War II
• Supermarine Spitfire XV

a designation reserved for use with the Supermarine Seafire

• Mark 15 nuclear bomb

1950s American thermonuclear bomb

• Mark 15 Phalanx CIWS

automated anti-missile gatling gun, entered US Navy service in 1980

• Mark 15, a variant of the 8-inch/55-caliber gun
• MK 15, the US military designation for the McMillan TAC-50

Other uses

• Mark 15 and Mark XV, the fifteenth chapter of the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Christian Bible
• International Watch Company Mark XV; pilot watch produced from 1999 to 2006