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The 24 cm SK L/40 was the primary armament of two classes of pre-dreadnought battleships, the Kaiser Friedrich III-class and the Wittelsbach-class. It was also the primary armament of two unique armored cruisers, the SMS Fürst Bismarck and SMS Prinz Heinrich of the Imperial German Navy.
The 24 cm SK L/40 "Theodor Karl" (SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon) L - Länge (with a 40 caliber barrel)) was a German railroad gun that served on both the Eastern Front and the Western Front in World War I. Originally a naval gun, it was adapted for land service after its ships were disarmed beginning in 1915.
24 cm Theodor Bruno Kanone (E) Nazi Germany: World War II: 240 24 cm Canon G modèle 1916 France: World War I: 240 Canon de 240 L Mle 1884 France: World War I: 240 Canon de 240 TR Mle 1903 France: World War I - World War II: 240 Canon de 240 modèle 93/96 TAZ France: World War I - World War II: 240 Type 90 240 mm railway gun Japan: World War II ...
Japanese 24 cm Railway gun The Type 90 240mm Railway Gun was initially deployed as a coastal artillery battery at Futtsu, Chiba , as part of the defenses guarding the entrance to Tokyo Bay . It was redeployed to Manchukuo in 1941, and based in the Hulin area of Heilongjiang , as part of the defenses against the Soviet Union, where it remained ...
The 24 cm Theodor Bruno Kanone (E - Eisenbahnlafette (railroad mounting)) was a German railroad gun used during World War II in the Battle of France and on coast-defense duties in Occupied France for the rest of the war. Six were built during the 1930s using fifty-year-old ex-naval guns.
The 24-cm-Kanone 3 (24 cm K 3) was a German heavy siege gun used in the Second World War by the first battalion of Artillerie-Regiment 84. Four were in service when Germany invaded Poland , assigned to the first two batteries of I./AR 84, [ 1 ] and in the Battle of France . [ 2 ]
Soldiers complained that the front sight required special tools to be adjusted. On August 23, 1985, then- U.S. Under Secretary of the Army James R. Ambrose suspended M249 production pending the development of a product improvement program (PIP.) [ 35 ] Congress removed funds for the M249 from the Fiscal Year 1986 defense budget, then ...
Two-deckers used the 24-pounder in two capacities: on the smallest two-deckers of 64 guns, the 24-pounder constituted the main artillery, with 26 pieces. Typical 74-gun vessels carried a 36-pounder main battery and an 18-pounder secondary battery, until the enlarged variant of the Téméraire class appeared in 1803, comprising Vétéran and ...