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Its performance, light weight and high rate of fire made it a popular anti-tank weapon in the pre-war Europe. Introduction of better armored tanks early in World War II, however, made the gun obsolete (as with other similarly performing weapons such as the German 3.7 cm Pak 36 and the United States 37 mm Gun M3).
Bofors M36, an anti-aircraft autocannon; Bulgarian M36 helmet, of the Bulgarian Army prior to and during World War II; Panssarimiina m/36, a Finnish anti-tank mine; Skoda 75 mm Model 1936 (75 mm M.36), a mountain artillery gun; M36, a variant of the US Army M35 series 2½-ton 6×6 cargo truck
The M36 tank destroyer, formally 90 mm Gun Motor Carriage, M36, was an American tank destroyer used during World War II. The M36 combined the hull of the M10 tank destroyer, which used the M4 Sherman's reliable chassis and drivetrain combined with sloped armor, and a new turret mounting the 90 mm gun M3. Conceived in 1943, the M36 first served ...
Another well-known gun made by the company was the Bofors 37 mm Anti-Tank Gun L/45, [21] a standard anti-tank weapon used by a variety of armies from the mid 1930s throughout World War II. It was built under licence in a variety of nations such as Finland, The Netherlands and Poland [ 22 ] and used in a variety of tanks and armored vehicles ...
The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 (often referred to simply as the "Bofors 40 mm gun", the "Bofors gun" and the like, [3] [4] see name) is an anti-aircraft autocannon, designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors. The gun was designed as an intermediate anti-aircraft gun, filling the gap between fast firing close-range ...
Tanks. 12 FT-17 light tank; 4 Mark V heavy tank; 6 TKS tankette; Armored cars. 13 Arsenal Crossley armored car; Anti-tank weapons. 44 Rheinmetall 37mm Pak 36 L/50 anti-tank gun (Note:The Estonian Rheinmetall gun had a longer barrel length compared to Wehrmacht standard L/45.) 4 Bohler 47 mm anti-tank gun model 1935; 15 Solothurn-Arsenal 20 mm ...
Medium tank: 285 40 mm gun, 2 × 8 mm Gebauer MGs 41M Turán II: Medium tank: 139-195 75 mm howitzer, 2 × 8 mm Gebauer MGs 43M Turán III: Medium tank: 1-2 75 mm gun, 2 × 8 mm Gebauer MGs 43M Zrínyi II: Assault gun: 72 105 mm howitzer 44M Zrínyi I: Tank destroyer: 1 75 mm gun, 6 × Nebelwerfer 41 rockets were also mounted during testing 44M ...
[3] [7] The 75 mm was then modified to include a larger caliber barrel, which was further developed into the 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41, one of the best-known AA guns of World War II. [ 3 ] [ 8 ] Despite German unwillingness to buy the 75 mm variant, Bofors decided to start serial production anyway and the Bofors 75 mm Model 1929 proved an export ...