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Production of carriages for the 21 cm Mörser 18 and the 17 cm Kanone 18 in Mörserlafette exceeded available barrels in 1941 and eight naval 15 cm SK C/28 coast defense gun barrels were adapted for use on the carriages.
The 15 cm SK C/28 [Note 1] was a German medium-caliber naval gun used during the Second World War.It served as the secondary armament for the Bismarck class and Scharnhorst-class battleships, Deutschland-class cruisers and the Graf Zeppelin-class aircraft carriers.
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Diameter (mm) Weapon name Country of origin Period 20 mm (0.79 in) Breda Model 35 Kingdom of Italy World War II 20 mm (0.79 in) Madsen 20 mm cannon Denmark World War II
The 15 cm SK L/45 was a widely used naval gun on many classes of World War I dreadnoughts and cruisers in both casemates and turrets.It was constructed of an A tube and two layers of hoops with a Krupp horizontal sliding-wedge breech block.
The Type 38 150mm Howitzer was a conventional design for its day, complete with crew seats on the gun shield and a solid box trail. It had a hydro-spring recoil system, interrupted screw type breechblock, and 1/16-inch gun shield. [3]
Type 4 15cm self-propelled gun Ho-Ro, side view. The hull selected was a modified Type 97 Chi-Ha medium tank chassis. [3] On to this platform, a Type 38 150 mm howitzer [4] based on a design by the German arms-manufacturer Krupp was mounted, but dated from 1905 and had been withdrawn from service as being obsolete in 1942. [5]
The Bofors 152 mm kanon m/42 is a naval gun for use on ships. It was initially used aboard light cruisers and cruisers including the Swedish Tre Kronor class and the Dutch De Zeven Provinciën class, after World War II.