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20 mm anti-aircraft tank Ta-Se Japan: World War II 20 2 Type 98 20 mm AAG tank Japan: World War II 20 2 Centaur AA Mk I and Mk II United Kingdom: World War II 20 3 BOV APC Yugoslavia: Cold War: 20 2 Crusader III 20mm anti-aircraft tank Mk II United Kingdom: World War II 20 4 Wirbelwind Nazi Germany: World War II 20 4 Tank AA, 20mm quad, Skink ...
Their larger 90 mm M2 gun would prove, as did the eighty-eight, to make an excellent anti-tank gun as well, and was widely used late in the war in this role. Also, available to the Americans at the start of the war was the 120 mm M1 gun stratosphere gun , which was the most powerful AA gun with an impressive 60,000 ft (~18 km) altitude capability.
The 120 mm gun M1 was the United States Army's standard super-heavy anti-aircraft gun during World War II and the Korean War, complementing the smaller and more mobile M2 90 mm gun in service. Its maximum altitude was about 60,000 ft (18,000 m), which earned it the nickname stratosphere gun .
Type 10 120 mm AA gun; ... M42 40 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun "Duster" ... Oerlikon Millennium 35 mm Naval Revolver Gun System; Air Defense Anti-Tank System ...
The M51 Skysweeper (Gun, M51, Antiaircraft or Gun automatic, 75-mm T83E6, and E7, recoil mechanism, and loader rammer) was an anti-aircraft gun deployed in the early 1950s by both the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force. It was the first such gun to combine a gun laying radar, analog computer (director) and an autoloader on a single carriage.
Pages in category "Anti-aircraft guns of the United States" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The gun is said to be well balanced, and easy to elevate. A semi-automatic horizontal sliding-wedge breech is used and Fixed QF 120 x 708R ammunition was used. The gun fired either high explosive or incendiary shrapnel shells that weighed 20.6 kg (45 lb 7 oz), with a complete round weighing 32.4 kg (71 lb 7 oz). [3]
Bofors 120 mm Automatic Gun L/46, [4] most commonly referred to as either Bofors FAK 120 or Bofors TAK 120 depending on the configuration (field gun vs naval gun), was a Swedish liquid-cooled single-barreled 120 mm (4.7 in) caliber long-range anti-aircraft autocannon designed by Bofors during the 1950s for indigenous use and export.