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With a total weight of 515 kilograms (1,135 lb) (not including ammunition or other equipment) the 47mm was a lot heavier than the German Pak 36 at 327 kilograms (721 lb), 37 mm gun M3 at 912 lb (414 kg) or 37 mm Bofors at 370 kg (820 lb), although the Soviet 45-mm was about the same at 560 kg (1,230 lb) while the 2-pdr was significantly heavier ...
In the 1930s the French Army sought a replacement for the derivatives of the 75 mm mle 1897 field gun it used as an anti-tank gun. The soixante-quinze was an effective anti-tank gun but was heavy and much harder to conceal than the newer, small, high-velocity, small calibre anti-tank weapons.
One carried the F.R.C. Herstal 47 mm Model 1931 anti-tank gun and one the Canon de 76 FRC, a low-velocity 76 mm infantry gun, [10] in a fixed, forward-facing structure. Pre-production tests of the 76 mm-equipped version found that the large recoil caused a high pitch movement after firing, leading to a completely unstable gun-laying platform ...
46.5 mm (1.83 in) 47 mm kan M/83 (Stafsjö 47 mm Engström fast shooting naval gun L/22 model 1883) Sweden-Norway: 1880s - World War I 47 mm (1.9 in) 47 mm kan M/95 (Finspång 47 mm fast shooting naval gun L/55 model 1895) Sweden-Norway: 1880s - World War I 47 mm (1.9 in) QF 3 pounder Hotchkiss Mk I, Mk II France: World War I - World War II
This includes 47-mm guns, which the British called "3 pounders". Pages in category "47 mm artillery" ... 47 mm Model 1931 anti-tank gun; A. AC 47 anti-tank gun; C.
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The AC 47 was a French anti-tank gun of 47 mm calibre. It was principally used in the ouvrages and casemates of the Maginot Line in the late 1930s; another version was created for naval use. AC stands for anti-char, char being French for "tank".
The anti-tank guns of the 1920s and 1930s were of small caliber; nearly all major armies possessing them used 37 mm ammunition (the British Army used the slightly larger 40 mm 2-pounder gun). [2] As World War II progressed, the appearance of heavier tanks rendered these weapons obsolete, and anti-tank guns likewise began firing larger and more ...