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The 120 mm gun M1 was the United States Army's standard super-heavy anti-aircraft gun during World War II and the Korean War, complementing the smaller and more mobile M2 90 mm gun in service. Its maximum altitude was about 60,000 ft (18,000 m), which earned it the nickname stratosphere gun .
Bofors 120 mm Automatic Gun L/46, [4] most commonly referred to as either Bofors FAK 120 or Bofors TAK 120 depending on the configuration (field gun vs naval gun), was a Swedish liquid-cooled single-barreled 120 mm (4.7 in) caliber long-range anti-aircraft autocannon designed by Bofors during the 1950s for indigenous use and export.
The Type 10 or 12 cm/45 10th Year Type naval gun was a Japanese 120 mm calibre dual purpose anti-aircraft and coastal defense gun used during the Second World War.It was derived from the 12 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun.
7.5 cm L/45 M/16 anti aircraft gun Norway: World War II 75 7.5 cm L/45 M/32 anti aircraft gun Norway: World War II 75 Type 4 75 mm AA gun Japan: World War II 75 Type 11 75 mm AA gun Japan: World War II 75 Type 88 Japan: World War II 75 7.5 cm kanon PL vz. 37 Czechoslovakia: World War II 75 Cannone da 75/46 C.A. modello 34 Kingdom of Italy ...
Pages in category "Anti-aircraft guns of the United States" ... 120 mm gun M1; C. C-RAM; D. Director (military) M. M9 gun director; M45 Quadmount; M51 Skysweeper; M61 ...
The M51 Skysweeper (Gun, M51, Antiaircraft or Gun automatic, 75-mm T83E6, and E7, recoil mechanism, and loader rammer) was an anti-aircraft gun deployed in the early 1950s by both the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force. It was the first such gun to combine a gun laying radar, analog computer (director) and an autoloader on a single carriage.
Their larger 90 mm M2 gun would prove, as did the eighty-eight, to make an excellent anti-tank gun as well, and was widely used late in the war in this role. Also, available to the Americans at the start of the war was the 120 mm M1 gun stratosphere gun, which was the most powerful AA gun with an impressive 60,000 ft (~18 km) altitude ...
Towed anti-aircraft weapon PG-87: 25 mm towed anti-aircraft gun 7,000 [40] China: 2 x 25 mm, improved version of the Type 85. [50] [51] Capable of radar-based automatic engagement. PG-99 (Type 90) 35 mm towed anti-aircraft gun China: 2 x 35 mm towed autocannon [52] based on Type 90 2 X 35 mm, licensed production of Swiss Oerlikon 35 mm twin ...