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The Pak 36 (Panzerabwehrkanone 36) is a 3.7 cm / 37mm caliber German anti-tank gun used during the Second World War. It was the main anti-tank weapon of Wehrmacht Panzerjäger units until 1942. Developed by Rheinmetall in 1933, it was first issued to the German Army in 1936, with 9,120 being available by the beginning of the war in September ...
The 3.7 cm PaK-36, was the standard anti-tank gun of the Wehrmacht in 1940. During the battle of France in 1940 it had trouble dealing with thick armour of French and British tanks. [ 1 ] In 1941, when Germany invaded the USSR , the gun was next to useless when confronted with Russian T-34 or KV-series tanks.
The 3.7 cm KwK 36 L/45 (3.7 cm Kampfwagenkanone 36 L/45) was a German 3.7 cm cannon used primarily as the main armament of earlier variants of the German Sd.Kfz. 141 Panzerkampfwagen III medium tank. It was used during the Second World War. It was essentially the 3.7 cm Pak 36 modified for use in a rotating enclosed turret.
3 cm MK 303 Flak; 3.7 cm Flak 18/36/37/43; 3.7 cm SK C/30 – naval AA gun 3.7 cm FlaK 43; 37 mm automatic air defense gun M1939 (61-K) (captured from Russia by Wehrmacht and redesignated 3.7 cm M39(r)) 5 cm FlaK 41; Schräge Musik – also independently developed by Imperial Japanese Naval Air Service (both in use by May 1943)
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.
3.7 cm Flak 18/36/37/43, a German World War II anti-aircraft gun; 3.7 cm PaK 36, a German World War II gun; 3.7 cm SK C/30, a German World War II naval anti-aircraft gun; ARWEN 37, a less than lethal riot launcher; ARWEN ACE, a less than lethal riot launcher; BK 3,7, a German World War II airborne anti-tank gun; Bofors 37 mm, a Swedish designed ...
The 53-K was essentially an improved version 19-K anti-tank gun mounted on a 37 mm 1-K anti-tank gun chassis (itself a licensed copy of the 3.7 cm Pak 36) using modern ammunition. Other improvements comprised semi-automatic breech, sight, firing button, suspension, reliable shield mount, and movable part re-balancing.
The closest Allied counterpart to the 3.7 cm Flak series was the 40 mm Bofors L/60, which was designated the "4 cm Flak 28" in German service. The Bofors fired a larger shell of 900 g (32 oz), as opposed to around 650 g (23 oz), at a slightly higher muzzle velocity of around 880 m/s (2,900 ft/s) as opposed to just under 800 m/s (2,600 ft/s).