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The 7.5 cm KwK 40 (7.5 cm Kampfwagenkanone [a] 40) was a German 75 mm Second World War era vehicle-mounted gun, used as the primary armament of the German Panzer IV (F2 model onwards) medium tank and the Sturmgeschütz III (F model onwards) and Sturmgeschütz IV assault guns which were used as tank destroyers.
The 7.5 cm KwK 40 (75x495mm) used in tanks had a fixed cartridge case twice the length of that used by the 7.5 cm KwK 37, the short barrelled 75 mm used on earlier tanks, and the 7.5 cm Pak 40 cartridge was a third longer than that used by the KwK 40. The Pak 40 used a percussion primer, while the vehicle mounted 75 mm guns used electrical primers.
Historical 5 cm KwK 39 in front to the Panzerspähwagen Sd.Kfz. 234 Kampfwagenkanone ( KwK ) (German, 'fighting vehicle cannon') was the designation given to any type of tank gun mounted in an armoured fighting vehicle or infantry fighting vehicle of the German-Wehrmacht until 1945.
The 7.5 cm KwK 42 L/70 (from 7.5 cm Kampfwagenkanone 42 L/70) was a 7.5 cm calibre German tank gun used on German armoured fighting vehicles in the Second World War.The gun was the armament of the Panther medium tank and two variants of the Jagdpanzer IV self-propelled anti-tank gun.
3.7 cm Pak 36: 1928: 327 kg (721 lb) 4.7 cm Pak 181(f) ... 7.5 cm Pak 40: 1942: 1,425 kg (3,142 lb) ... although, on the latter, it is designated 7.5 cm KwK 42 8.8 cm ...
7.5 cm Gebirgskanone L/13 C/80; 7.5 cm Gebirgskanone Model 1911; 7.5 cm Infanteriegeschütz 37; 7.5 cm Infanteriegeschütz 42; 7.5 cm kanon PL vz. 37; 7.5 cm KwK 37; 7.5 cm KwK 40; 7.5 cm KwK 42; 7.5 cm L/45 M/16 anti aircraft gun; 7.5 cm L/45 M/32 anti aircraft gun; 7.5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschütz 18; 7.5 cm Leichtgeschütz 40; 7.5 cm Pak ...
From March 1942, new variants of the Panzer IV and StuG III had a derivative of the 7.5 cm PaK 40 anti-tank gun, the longer-barreled 7.5 cm KwK 40. [1] When older Panzer IVs were up-gunned, their former KwK 37 guns were reused to arm later Panzer III tanks and other infantry support vehicles. In 1943, depleted stocks and demand for the Panzer ...
The gun was able to destroy the most common allied tanks at up to 1,000 meters. It used the same 75 x 495R ammunition as the 7.5 cm KwK 40 of Panzer IV and 7.5 cm StuK 40 gun fitted on the Sturmgeschütz assault guns. The Pak 39 was manufactured from 1943 onwards by Rheinmetall-Borsig AG in Unterlüß and by Seitz-Werke GmbH in Bad Kreuznach.