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The 20 mm ShVAK was designed sometime between 1935 and 1936 and series production began in 1936. A few months later, production of the 12.7 mm version ceased. [ 5 ] Similarly to its predecessors, the 20 mm ShVAK was a gas-operated gun, belt-fed by disintegrating link ammunition.
Collaborative combat aircraft (CCA) is a US program for unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) that is considered broadly equivalent to a loyal wingman. CCAs are intended to operate in collaborative teams with the next generation of manned combat aircraft, including sixth-generation fighters and bombers such as the Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider ...
20 mm caliber is a specific size of popular autocannon ammunition. The dividing line between smaller-caliber weapons, commonly called " guns ", from larger-caliber " cannons " (e.g. machine gun vs. autocannon ), is conventionally taken to be the 20 mm round, the smallest caliber of autocannon.
The Oerlikon 20 mm cannon is a series of autocannons based on an original German Becker Type M2 20 mm cannon design that appeared very early in World War I. It was widely produced by Oerlikon Contraves and others, with various models employed by both Allied and Axis forces during World War II .
99-2 mod 5 [5] 14mm 14-Shi (experiment) Caliber 20 mm: 14.5 mm Action API blowback Weight 23 kg: 27.2 kg: 37 kg: 38 kg: 38 kg: 38.5 kg: 28.5 kg Length 1331 mm: 1885 mm: 1645 mm Barrel length 810 mm: 1250 mm: 975mm Rate of fire 520 rpm: 550 rpm: 480 rpm: 500 rpm: 620 rpm: 720 rpm: 630 rpm Muzzle velocity 600 m/s: 720–750 m/s: 970 m/s Cartridge ...
The Rheinmetall Mk 20 Rh-202 (short for Maschinenkanone 20 mm Rheinmetall) is a 20 mm caliber autocannon designed and produced by Rheinmetall. It fires the 20×139mm ammunition originally developed for the Hispano-Suiza HS.820 .
US Patent drawing of the Hispano Suiza cannon. The British version was also licensed for use in the United States as the M1, with the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) and U.S. Navy, which concluded that a single HS404 is analogous to three .50 machine guns in firepower while weighing less than twice as much, planning to switch to the 20 mm calibre as soon as the gun could be produced in ...
The HS.820 is a 20 mm caliber autocannon developed by Hispano-Suiza primarily for aircraft use, but more widely used in a series of ground-based anti-aircraft guns. After Oerlikon purchased Hispano's armaments division in 1970, the HS.820 became the Oerlikon KAD, supplanting Oerlikon's own KAA and KAB weapons in the process. [1]