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37 mm gun or 3.7 cm gun can refer to several weapons or weapons systems. The "37 mm" refers to the inside diameter of the barrel of the gun, and therefore the diameter of the projectile it fires. However, the overall size and power of the gun itself can vary greatly between different weapons, in spite of them all being called "37 mm" guns.
The 37 mm gun M3 is the first dedicated anti-tank gun fielded by United States forces in numbers. ... The 37mm HE round had 39 grams (0.085 lb) of TNT, producing an ...
The 37 mm gun M1 was an anti-aircraft autocannon developed in the United States. It was used by the US Army in World War II . The gun was produced in a towed variant, or mounted along with two M2 machine guns on the M2 / M3 half-track , resulting in the T28/T28E1/M15/M15A1 series of multiple gun motor carriages.
Modernized version was adopted in 1938 as 37 mm pansarvärnskanon m/38 (anti-tank gun model 1938) and 37 mm pansarvärnskanon m/38 F. The latter was also produced in a tank gun variant – 37 mm Kanon m/38 stridsvagn ; it was fitted to Landsverk Strv m/38 , Strv m/39 , Strv m/40 light tanks and to the Strv m/41 , a Swedish version of the Czech ...
The 37 mm M9 autocannon was a derivative of the 37 mm M1A2 flak gun and used the longer, more powerful 37×223mmSR cartridge. Compared to the M4, the M9 had 50% more muzzle velocity (3,000 fps) from a 78-inch barrel (vs. 65-inch in M4), and was twice as heavy (120 vs. 55 pounds for the barrel alone); the whole M9 weighed 405 pounds vs. 213 of ...
61-K at IDF/AF Museum, Chatzerim airbase, Israel 61-K of the Soviet 210th Guards Anti-Aircraft Artillery Regiment PVO in Crimea, May 1944 The 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K) (Russian: 37-мм автоматическая зенитная пушка образца 1939 года (61-К)) is a Soviet 37 mm calibre anti-aircraft gun developed during the late 1930s and used during ...
The 1-K was a Soviet anti-tank gun initially developed by the German company Rheinmetall.The gun was closely related to the German PaK 35/36.It lacked some improvements eventually introduced in the PaK 35/36, but was basically the same design; each gun could use ammunition of the other.
The Type 94 37-mm AT gun was introduced in 1936. The design originated as an improvement to the Type 11 37 mm infantry gun, which was also used as a primitive anti-tank weapon. [5] However, its short bore, low muzzle velocity, short range and slow reloading time gave it a limited capacity against enemy armor. Development of a replacement began ...