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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 .
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 ...
Type 10 120 mm AA gun; ... M42 40 mm self-propelled anti-aircraft gun "Duster" ... Oerlikon Millennium 35 mm Naval Revolver Gun System; Air Defense Anti-Tank System ...
120 mm Gun M1 ("Stratosphere") United States: World War II / Cold War 120 Type 3 12 cm AA gun Japan: World War II 120 Type 10 120 mm AA gun Japan: World War II 127 5"/25 caliber gun United States: World War II 127 5"/38 caliber gun United States: World War II / Korean War / Cold War / Vietnam War 128 5-inch/54-caliber Mark 16 gun United States
The T34 heavy tank was an American design for a heavy tank. It evolved from the T29 heavy tank and T30 heavy tank in 1945, using the same chassis, but sporting a 120 mm (4.72 in) modified 120 mm gun M1 anti-aircraft gun. [3] Extra armor plating was applied to the rear of the turret bustle as a counterweight for the heavier 120 mm T53 [4] [1 ...
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 .
Pages in category "Anti-aircraft guns of the United States" ... 75 mm gun M1916; 90 mm gun M1/M2/M3; 120 mm gun M1; C. C-RAM; D. Director (military) M. M9 gun director;
Anti-aircraft machine guns have long been mounted on trucks, and these were quite common during World War I. A predecessor of the WWII German "88" anti-aircraft gun, the WWI German 77 mm anti-aircraft gun, was truck-mounted and used to great effect against British tanks. The British QF 3 inch 20 cwt was mounted on trucks for use on the Western ...