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In comparison, the British QF 3.7-inch (94 mm) Mark III fired a 13 kg (29 lb) projectile at 790 m/s (2,600 ft/s) to an effective ceiling of 10,600 meters (34,800 ft), the American 90 mm M1 fired a 10 kg (22 lb) shell at 820 m/s (2,700 ft/s) to the same height, the Soviet 85 mm air defense gun M1939 (52-K) fired a 9.2 kg (20 lb) [44] projectile ...
88 mm (3.46 in) Breech: ... Width 2.527 m (8 ft 3.5 in) Height 1.7 m (5 ft 7 in) ... [13] a reference to the size and weight of the gun. Nevertheless, the improvised ...
With the increase of aircraft performance, many armies developed dedicated AA guns with a high muzzle velocity – allowing the projectiles to reach greater altitudes. The first such German gun, the Flak 16, was introduced in 1917, using the 88 mm caliber, common in the Kaiserliche Marine. [2]
The Wa Prüf report estimated that the Tiger's 88 mm gun would be capable of penetrating the differential case of an American M4 Sherman from 2,100 m (1.3 mi) and the turret front from 1,800 m (1.1 mi), but the Tiger's 88 mm gun would not penetrate the upper glacis plate at any range assuming a side angle of 30 degrees. The M4 Sherman's 75 mm ...
Width: 3.6 m (11 ft 10 in) Height: 2.8 m (9 ft 2 in) ... ubiquitous 88 mm and the slightly larger 105 mm, were also tested. ... its glacis plate upwards in one piece ...
TikTok users are trying to help out a confused husband who is bewildered by one of his wife’s “weird” garments that has “no head hole.”
Under ideal conditions, onlookers can count as many as 100 shooting stars per hour, but hourly rates will not be quite as high this year as a nearly full moon will shine bright on the night of Aug ...
This was followed by a small batch of Ju 88 P-1, which standardized the solid sheet metal nose of the C version for all known examples of the P-series, and used the new 75 mm (3.0 in) PaK 40L semi-automatic gun, also known as the Bordkanone BK 7,5, [29] which was also meant for use in both the later Henschel Hs 129B-3 dedicated anti-armor ...