title: Oerlikon
text: # Oerlikon
  
  Oerlikon may refer to:
  
  ## Companies
  
  * OC Oerlikon (former Unaxis), a Swiss technology conglomerate, or one of its business units:
     * Oerlikon Solar
     * Oerlikon Balzers
     * Oerlikon Leybold Vacuum
  * Oerlikon-Bührle, a company in Zürich, Switzerland that used to own Bally Shoe, Oerlikon Contraves, Pilatus Aircraft and Britten-Norman Aircraft; see Fairey Aviation Company
  * Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon, the Oerlikon subsidiary later became Oerlikon-Bührle, and is now part of Asea Brown Boveri
  * Oerlikon Contraves, a Swiss anti-aircraft artillery manufacturer founded in Zürich Oerlikon
     * Oerlikon KBA, a 25 mm cannon
     * Oerlikon 20 mm cannon, an anti-aircraft cannon
     * Oerlikon 35 mm twin cannon, an anti-aircraft cannon
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Oerlikon (Zürich), a district in the northern part of Zürich, Switzerland
  * Zürich Oerlikon railway station located in Zürich
  * Oerlikon, a world in M. A. Foster's "The Morphodite Trilogy"
  