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A Pak 40 75 mm anti-tank gun, displayed in the Museum of Military History, Vienna. 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 ...
9 km (30,000 ft) AA ceiling [ 1] Maximum firing range. 14.2 km (8.8 mi) horizontal. The 7.5 cm Flak. L/60 was a German anti-aircraft gun built during the 1930s and used by Germany in limited numbers during the Second World War. Although not produced in great numbers its features were further developed in the 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 series of guns.
Model 1901 on display in Trondheim, Norway. The Ehrhardt 7.5 cm Model 1901 (Also known as the 7.5 cm feltkanon m/01 or the M/01 7.5 cm (2.95 in) field gun) was a field gun designed and built by the German company Rheinische Metallwaren- und Maschinenfabrik and sold to Norway in 1901. It remained the main field artillery gun of the Norwegian ...
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 ...
Muzzle velocity. 349 m/s (1,150 ft/s) Maximum firing range. 8,250 m (9,020 yd) The Skoda 7.5 cm Gebirgskanone M. 15 (Bulgarian: 75-мм планинско оръдие “Шкода”) was a mountain gun used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. In German service, it was known as the 7,5cm Skoda Geb. K. M. 15. [4] The Italians designated them as ...
7.5 cm FK 18. The 7.5 cm Feldkanone 18 (7.5 cm FK 18) was a field gun used by Germany in World War II. It was designed to replace the 7.5 cm FK 16 nA, which was a World War I -era 7.7 cm FK 16 rebarreled in 75 mm during the early Thirties. The development of the FK 18 had a low priority and it was not until 1938 that the gun was issued to the ...
Filling weight. 640 grams (23 oz) The 7.5 cm kanon PL vz. 37 (Anti-aircraft Gun Model 37) was a Czech anti-aircraft gun used in World War II. Those weapons captured after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 were taken into Wehrmacht service as the 7.5 cm Flak M 37 (t) or Flak Skoda. The Germans sold many of them to Italy where ...
The 7.5 cm Pak 50 was developed during 1944 and details are scarce. The rationale for the guns might have been to produce a lighter, more portable and easily concealable version of the Pak 40. [ 1] Despite its Panzerabwehrkanone designation, it may have been a dual-purpose gun with both anti-tank and Infanteriegeschütz or Infantry support gun ...