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The 7.5 cm GebG 36(German: 7.5 cm Gebirgsgeschütz 36) was a 7.5 cm (3.0 in) German mountain gun used during World War II. At least 1,193 were built between 1938 and 1945. It was the standard light gun of the German mountain divisions, both Army and Waffen-SS, during World War II.
This gun used HE shells from the 7.5 cm Gebirgsgeschütz (Mountain Gun) 36 and the anti-tank shell of the 7.5 cm Feldkanone 16, neuer Art (Field Cannon, New Model). This meant that its ammunition could not be optimized to benefit from the peculiar ballistic characteristics of recoilless weapons.
There was also an infantry support gun, known as the 7.5 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/13 and designed as a replacement for the le.IG 18, which could be broken into four to six loads. However, though prototypes were tested, the German army felt that it did not improve on the existing design sufficiently to merit introduction and the army stayed with ...
7.5 cm Infanteriegeschütz 42 (7,5 cm le.IG 42) 7.5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschütz 18 (7,5 cm le.IG 18) 7.5 cm KwK 37 – Panzer IV tank gun; 7.5 cm KwK 40 – Panzer IV tank gun; 7.5 cm KwK 42 – Panther tank gun; Ehrhardt 7.5 cm Model 1901 – Anti-tank, field gun and coastal defense; Obice da 75/18 modello 34 (Acquired from the Italians by ...
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 Feldkanone 16 neuer Art (7.5 cm FK 16 nA) was a field gun used by Germany in World War II. Originally built as the World War I -era 7.7 cm FK 16 , surviving guns in German service were re-barrelled during the early 1930s in the new standard 7.5 cm calibre.
7.5 cm FK 38 Nazi Germany: World War II 75: 7.5 cm FK 7M85 Nazi Germany: World War II 75: Ehrhardt 7.5 cm Model 1901 Norway: World War II 75: 75 mm Reșița Model 1943 Kingdom of Romania: World War II (1944) 75: Škoda 7.5 cm d/29 Model 1911 Austria-Hungary: World War I 75: 7,5 cm kanon m/40 Sweden: World War II 75: 7,5 cm fältpjäs m/65 ...
The 7.5 cm GebirgsKanone 13 was a breech-loaded howitzer made of steel with a Krupp horizontal sliding-wedge breech and used Fixed quick-fire ammunition. It had a box trail carriage, gun shield , two wooden-spoked steel-rimmed wheels, and a hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism.