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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 ...
For example, the service life of a squeeze bore 7.5 cm Pak 41 could be as low as 1000 rounds compared to 5000-7000 rounds for the 7.5 cm Pak 39 (L/48). [3] The diameter of a fired shell could decrease as much as 40% from .50 caliber to .30 caliber (achieved in a version of the M2 machine gun).
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-tank guns for the later part of World War II, mostly in towed form, but also on a number ...
5 cm Pak 38: 1937: 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) 4.7 cm Pak 38(t) 1939: 590 kg (1,300 lb) Exclusively mounted on a tank destroyer: 2.8 cm sPzB 41: 1941: 229 kg (505 lb) sPzB stands for schwere Panzerbüchse, literally "heavy anti-tank rifle" 4.2 cm Pak 41: 1941: 560 kg (1,230 lb) 7.5 cm Pak 97/38: 1941: 1,190 kg (2,620 lb) 7.5 cm Pak 40: 1942: 1,425 kg ...
2.8 cm sPzB 41; 3.7 cm Pak 36; 4.2 cm Pak 41; 4cm kanón vz. 36; 5 cm Pak 38; 7.5 cm Pak 39; 7.5 cm Pak 40; 7.5 cm Pak 41; 7.5 cm PaK 42; 7.5 cm Pak 50; 7.5 cm Pak 97/38; 7.5 cm PjK 42; 7.5 cm StuK 40; 7.62 cm Pak 36(r) 7.92×94mm Patronen; 8 cm PAW 600; 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41; 8.8 cm Pak 43; 12.8 cm Pak 44; 4.7 cm KPÚV vz. 38
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 World War.The gun was the armament of the Panther medium tank and two variants of the Jagdpanzer IV self-propelled anti-tank gun.
The design of the KwK 40 was adapted from the similar towed anti-tank gun, the 7.5 cm Pak 40. It replaced the 7.5 cm KwK 37 with its 24-calibre barrel, providing a huge improvement in firepower for mid-war tank designs. It came in two versions, 43 ("L/43") and 48 ("L/48") calibres long barrels, the former used during 1942 and early 1943, and ...
The Pak 39 was an electrically fired weapon fitted with a semi-automatic breech mechanism and a 48 caliber long barrel. The gun was able to destroy the most common allied tanks at up to 1,000 meters. It used the same 75 x 495R ammunition as the 7.5 cm KwK 40 of Panzer IV and 7.5 cm StuK 40 gun fitted on the Sturmgeschütz assault guns.