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Katyusha: Soviet rocket artillery; Knee mortar: Japanese Type 89 50 mm light mortar, called "knee mortar" by American troops who thought it looked designed to be fired braced on the knee (which it was not).
The 240 mm howitzer was the most powerful weapon deployed by US field artillery units during World War II, able to fire a 360 lb (160 kg) high explosive projectile 25,225 yards (23,066 m). [3] It was the largest field piece used by the US Army during the war except for naval ordnance adapted into railway guns. [4]
M/40 Automatic cannon World War II 20 mm anti-aircraft and antitank gun; Automatkanon m/45 World War II 20 mm aircraft gun; Bofors 25 mm M/32 World War II 25 mm anti-aircraft gun; Pansarvärnskanon m/34 Inter-war 37 mm antitank gun; Pansarvärnskanon m/38 Inter-war 37 mm antitank gun; Pansarvärnskanon m/39 m/40 World War II 37 mm antitank gun
World War II, modern 87.6: Ordnance QF 25-pounder Short Mark 1 gun-howitzer Australia: World War II 94: Ordnance QF 95 mm howitzer, infantry United Kingdom: World War II 100: 10 cm M. 14 Feldhaubitze Austria-Hungary: World Wars I, II 100: Skoda houfnice vz 14/19 Austria-Hungary: World Wars I, II 100: 10 cm houfnice vz. 28 Czechoslovakia: World ...
Nevertheless, the 25-pounder was considered by all to be one of the best artillery pieces in use. The effects caused by the gun (and the speed at which the British artillery control system could respond) in the North-West Europe Campaign of 1944–1945 made many German soldiers believe that the British had secretly deployed an automatic 25-pounder.
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Pages in category "World War II self-propelled artillery" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This page contains a list of equipment used the German military of World War II.Germany used a number of type designations for their weapons. In some cases, the type designation and series number (i.e. FlaK 30) are sufficient to identify a system, but occasionally multiple systems of the same type are developed at the same time and share a partial designation.