Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The 7.5 cm Pak 41 was one of the last German anti-tank guns brought into service and used in World War II and notable for being one of the largest anti-tank guns to rely on the Gerlich principle (pioneered by the German gun-designer Hermann Gerlich, who developed the principle in the 1920s, reportedly for a hunting rifle) to deliver a higher muzzle velocity and therefore greater penetration in ...
The 7.5 cm Pak 40 (7,5 cm Panzerabwehrkanone 40) was a German 75 millimetre anti-tank gun of the Second World War. The gun was developed in 1939–1941 and entered service in 1942. With 23,303 examples produced, the Pak 40 formed the backbone of German anti-tank guns for the later part of World War II, mostly in towed form, but also on a number ...
Panzerabwehrkanone (abbreviated as Pak), changed to Panzerjägerkanone in 1941, is the German term for anti-tank gun. In the Angelosphere, however, Pak refers to the fifteen variants of Wehrmacht 's anti-tank gun produced before or during World War II .
For example, the service life of a squeeze bore 7.5 cm Pak 41 could be as low as 1000 rounds compared to 5000-7000 rounds for the 7.5 cm Pak 39 (L/48). [3] The diameter of a fired shell could decrease as much as 40% from .50 caliber to .30 caliber (achieved in a version of the M2 machine gun).
7.5 cm Pak 41; 7.5 cm PaK 42; 7.5 cm Pak 50; 7.5 cm Pak 97/38; 7.5 cm PjK 42; 7.5 cm StuK 40; 7.62 cm Pak 36(r) 7.92×94mm Patronen; 8 cm PAW 600; 8.8 cm Flak 18/36 ...
7.5 cm Pak 39; 7.5 cm Pak 40; 7.5 cm Pak 41; 7.5 cm Pak 97/38 (also known as PaK 97/38) – modernized French gun of 1897; 7.62 cm Pak 36(r) (conversion of Russian 76 mm divisional gun M1936 (F-22)) 8 cm PAW 600. Panzerwurfkanone 10H64; Thor's Hammer/Panzertod (105mm recoilless gun firing 81.4mm subcaliber projectile) [5] 8.8 cm Raketenwerfer ...
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.
The Pak 97/38 (7.5 cm Panzerabwehrkanone 97/38 and 7,5 cm Panzerjägerkanone 97/38 [2] [3]) was a German anti-tank gun used by the Wehrmacht in World War II.The gun was a combination of the barrel from the French Canon de 75 modèle 1897 fitted with a Swiss Solothurn muzzle brake and mounted on the carriage of the German 5 cm Pak 38 and could fire captured French and Polish ammunition.