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...
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The 7.5 cm KwK 40 (7.5 cm Kampfwagenkanone 40) was a German 75 mm Second World War era vehicle-mounted gun, used as the primary armament of the German...
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The 7.5 cm KwK 37 L/24 (7.5 cm Kampfwagenkanone 37 L/24) was a short-barreled, howitzer-like German 75 mm tank gun used during World War II, primarily...
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The 5 cm KwK 39 L/60 (5 cm Kampfwagenkanone 39 L/60) was a German 50 mm calibre tank gun used during the Second World War, primarily as the main armament...
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the 7.5 cm KwK 40, which differed primarily in using more compact ammunition, thereby allowing more rounds to be carried inside the vehicles. The KwK 40...
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The 5 cm KwK 38 L/42 (5 cm Kampfwagenkanone 38 L/42) was a German 50 mm calibre cannon used as the main armament of variants of the German Panzer III...
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The 3.7 cm KwK 36 L/45 (3.7 cm Kampfwagenkanone 36 L/45) was a German 3.7 cm cannon used primarily as the main armament of earlier variants of the German...
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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...
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The 8.8 cm KwK 43 (Kampfwagenkanone —"fighting vehicle cannon") was an 88 mm 71-calibre-length tank gun designed by Krupp and used by the German Wehrmacht...
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Panzer III was the 5 cm KwK 38, which despite being the same 5 cm caliber had a lower muzzle velocity due to the shorter barrel length (L/42 calibers) and...
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Panzer III (redirect from Panzerbefehlswagen mit 5cm KwK 38 L/42)
7.5 cm KwK 40 gun and became the main German tank instead. From 1942 the last version of the Panzer III (Panzer III N) mounted the short barrelled 7.5...
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70-caliber 7.5 cm KwK 42 (75 mm L/70) of the Panther, which could penetrate 185 mm (7.3 in) of unsloped RHA at 100 meters (110 yd) and 149 mm (5.9 in) at...
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version of the Jagdpanzer 38 carrying a 105 mm StuH 42 main cannon, a version mounting the 7.5 cm KwK 42 L/70 gun from the Panther, and an anti-aircraft variant...
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Kampfwagenkanone (redirect from KwK)
(Hrsg.): Militärisches Studienglossar Englisch. Januar 2001, S. 284. The first 1540 tank of the Ausführung J were equipped with the shorter 5 cm KwK 38....
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new 75 mm gun should have ballistic performance similar to the German 7.5 cm KwK 42; which means firing a round weighing a little more than 6 kg at a muzzle...
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service in significant numbers, also serving in modified form as the 8.8 cm KwK 43 main gun on the Tiger II tank, the open-top Nashorn and fully enclosed...
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Panther tank (redirect from Panzer 5)
manual states that the 8.8 cm KwK 36 HE shell from the Tiger I contained 0.9 kg of amatol (3765 Kilojoules). The 7.5 cm KwK 42 HE shell from the Panther...
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anti-tank and tank destroyer 8.8 cm PaK 43 gun used for the Elefant and Jagdpanther, and turret-mounted 8.8 cm KwK 43 heavy tank gun of the Tiger II...
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identified through a bulb mounted to both sides of the turret. The 7.5 cm KwK 42 was equipped to the turret with a shorter recoil system to fit better...
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available in time for war, 250 built 7.5 cm Pak 40 German anti-tank gun (similar form factor as Anti-Tank gun) 7.5 cm KwK 42 German tank gun (similar ballistic...
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Panzer IV (redirect from Panzerbefehlswagen mit 7.5cm KwK L/48)
the short-barreled, howitzer-like 75 mm (2.95 in) Kampfwagenkanone 37 7.5 cm KwK 37 tank gun, 24 calibres in length which was a low-velocity weapon mainly...
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earlier Hotchkiss 5-barrelled rotary-cannon. The 3.7 cm TAK 1918 was designed and built for the Imperial German Army in 1918. The 3.7 cm Pak 36 which first...
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catalog designation British Ordnance QF 17 pounder German 7.5 cm KwK 40 German 7.5 cm KwK 42 Soviet 85 mm D-5T tank gun Soviet 100 mm D-10 tank gun The...
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and F, plus new Ausf. G and H models) had the 50-millimetre (2.0 in) KwK 38 L/42 cannon which also equipped the majority of the tanks in North Africa...
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and engine power output, the latter figure rounded to the nearest 10 hp (7.457 kW). For example, the HX range model 18.330 has a technically permissible...
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World War II 75 Type 5 75 mm Japan World War II 75 7.5 cm KwK 40 Germany World War II 75 7.5 cm KwK 42 Germany World War II 75 75mm Gun M2/M3/M6 United...
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with the high-velocity 75 mm gun CN 75-50, a development of the German 7.5 cm KwK 42 L/70 (used in the Panther tank). While the gun was satisfactory, the...
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fitted to different cartridge cases. For example, the 7.5 cm Pak 40 L/46 antitank gun and the 7.5 cm KwK 40 L/48 tank gun fired the same projectile, even though...
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10.5 cm leFH 18 howitzer on Panzer II chassis Sd.Kfz. 128 Panzer II (50 mm KwK 39 L/60), VK 16.02 Leopard Sd.Kfz. 131 Marder II self-propelled 7.5 cm Pak...
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