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The 15 cm SK C/28 [Note 1] was a German medium-caliber naval gun used during the Second World War.It served as the secondary armament for the Bismarck class and Scharnhorst-class battleships, Deutschland-class cruisers and the Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers.
The 15 cm SK L/40 [Note 1] was a German naval gun that was used as secondary armament on pre-dreadnought battleships, protected cruisers and armored cruisers of the Imperial German Navy in World War I. It was also used as a coast-defence gun during World Wars I and II.
BL 6 inch Mk XI naval gun 50-caliber United Kingdom: World War I - World War II 152.4 mm (6.00 in) BL 6 inch Mk XII naval gun 45-caliber United Kingdom: World War I - World War II 152.4 mm (6.00 in) BL 6 inch naval guns Mk XIII – XVIII United Kingdom: World War I - World War II 152.4 mm (6.00 in) BL 6 inch Mk XXII naval gun 50-caliber
The 15 cm TbtsK C/36 was a German medium-caliber naval gun deployed on Type 1936A (Mob) destroyers during the Second World War.It was designed because the Oberkommando der Marine (German Naval High Command) thought that the 12.7 cm (5.0 in) guns of the Type 1936 and 1936A destroyers would potentially be inferior to those of possible enemies.
The 15 cm SK L/45 was a widely used naval gun on many classes of World War I dreadnoughts and cruisers in both casemates and turrets.It was constructed of an A tube and two layers of hoops with a Krupp horizontal sliding-wedge breech block.
Pages in category "Naval guns of Germany" The following 72 pages are in this category, out of 72 total. ... 15 cm SK L/40 naval gun; 15 cm SK L/45; 15 cm SK C/25; 15 ...
BL 15-inch Mk I naval guns firing, interwar view of a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship - the right-hand gun in each turret has just fired and the degree of recoil is evident. The BL 15-inch Mark I gun proved its effectiveness at the Battle of Jutland in 1916, scoring hits out to 19,500 yards (17,800 m), a record for naval gunnery at that time. [10]
The 15 cm SK C/25 [Note 1] was a German medium-caliber naval gun used during the Second World War. It served as the primary armament for the Königsberg class and Leipzig-class cruisers. No surplus weapons of this type appear to have been used as coast-defense guns.