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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 75 mm US tank gun
		M1 howitzer gun converted for use on the Howitzer Motor Carriage M8, a Stuart tank conversion.
		A specially modified pack howitzer (carriage and gun) designed to be airportable, either parachuted in sections or as with British practice delivered to the battlefield by Horsa glider.
		A light version, derived from an aircraft gun, able to be fitted to a smaller tank, in this case the M24 Chaffee The M24 Chaffee was an American light tank used during World War II and the Korean War.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/75-mm-US-tank-gun (551 words)

	Bofors 37mm Anti-Tank Gun for Phoenix Command
		The rest of the guns were produced during the war and an additional eighteen were bought and thirty more borrowed from Sweden.
		Usually the gun was placed in a specially dug depression where it was under cover and it was brought into a prepared firing position only moments before fire was opened.
		When necessary, the gun could be pulled away under enemy fire - staying low behind the cover provided by the gun shield, the men would crawl and pull the gun after them using tow lines.
	www.saunalahti.fi /~ejuhola/7.62/bofors37mm.html (1351 words)

	SoldierTech: Future Tank Gun Systems (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The coil gun accelerates the projectile, which in this case must be made of a ferromagnetic (affected by magnetic fields) but non-magnatizable metal, by energizing the coils individually to attract the projectile to the center of each coil.
		In a conventional tank round the propellant is ignited at the rear of the projectile (where the primer is) and burns forward.
		Prototype of the Leopard 2 with the 140 mm gun.
	www.military.com /soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_TankGun,,00.html (1429 words)

	Gyro-stabilisation of Gun and Sight-line (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The question of stabilisation of tank guns was receiving considerable attention in Germany at the end of the war, and appears to have been stimulated by Russian developments in the same field.
		He gave the opinion that, to stabilise gun and sight bulky equipment is necessary, and in any case it is doubtful whether the accuracy of stabilisation attainable warrants firing the main tank armament on the move.
		The gun is fired by the coincidence of two contacts, the angular position of one being controlled by the gyro frame, that of the other by the position of the gun.
	www.warlinks.com /armour/tank_research/section_f.html (2628 words)

	57mm Anti-Tank Gun
		On 8 December 1944 a demonstration was conducted by the 776th TD Bn in the vicinity of SCHALBACH, 572-268 with a 57mm AT gun belonging to the 71st Inf.
		The gun was moved to a new position of 300 yds range at an 8 degree angle off the front of the tank.
		The hull, the part of the tank between the track and the turret, is vulnerable, and the APC made a slightly larger hole than the diameter of the shell, also a larger hole than was made in the tureet.
	www.100thww2.org /support/77657mm.html (783 words)

	Lone Sentry: WWII German Antitank Weapons (WWII U.S. Intelligence Bulletin, Nov. 1944)
		The guns in the tapered-bore group are intended to have greater mobility than conventional guns capable of achieving identical armor penetration.
		The tapered-bore 28/20-mm gun, s.Pz.B. The airborne 28/20-mm antitank gun.
		Hollow-charge shells have been furnished for standard infantry guns and artillery of German divisions of all types—in particular, the 75-mm and 150-mm infantry howitzers, the 105-mm and 150-mm field howitzers, and the 105-mm guns.
	www.lonesentry.com /german_antitank (3167 words)

	Anti-tank warfare at AllExperts
		Tanks were also vulnerable to artillery and mortars, especially if they became stuck, which was no miracle at the time with difficult terrain and barbed wire, and they could be targeted more easily.
		By the end of the war a number of light guns, typically 37 mm (a 2 pounder in British measure) were being deployed on short carriages that proved to be considerably better.
		The "average" gun by 1943 was 50 mm or larger, the Germans had an excellent 50 mm high velocity design, while the British introduced the "6-pounder" which was also adopted by the US Army as the 57 mm.
	en.allexperts.com /e/a/an/anti-tank_warfare.htm (1727 words)

	57mm AT Gun
		Anti-tank guns with a high muzzle velocity were a German specialty, such as the German 75mm anti-tank and the famous 88.
		On 8 December 1944 a demonstration was conducted by the 776th TD Bn in the vicinity of SCHALBACH, 572-268 with a 57mm AT gun belonging to the 71st Inf.
		The gun was moved to a new position of 300 yds range at an 8 degree angle off the front of the tank.
	efour4ever.com /57mm.htm (1090 words)

	Paintball Artillery/ Anti-Tank Gun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Preliminary planning indicates that the gun will be controlled electrically, fed from a tank roughly the size of a five pound carbon dioxide tank - in fact initial tests will probably be done with Co2 because I already have a larger tank and regulator from my homebrewing.
		The gun is basically a pvc pneumatic "spud-gun", 2 inch bore with a 3 inch pressure chamber.
		The gun will be loaded from a slot cut in the breach end and closed by a tight fitting piece of 2.5 inch pvc (sealed by o-rings).
	home.comcast.net /~bmwsyce/paintball_art.htm (360 words)

	ZTZ99 (Type 99) Main Battle Tank - SinoDefence.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The 125mm smoothbore main gun and the autoloader, which allows the crew of the tank to be reduced to three man, are both believed to be of Soviet/Russian origin.
		The tank adopts a conventional layout, with the driving compartment at the front, the fighting compartment in the centre, and the engine compartment at the rear.
		The primary kinetic energy armour-piercing ammunition for the 125mm tank gun is the APFSDS round with a 30:1 length/calibre heavy tungsten alloy penetrator.
	www.sinodefence.com /army/tank/type98.asp (1389 words)

	Glue (Adhesive) Set-Ups for Tanks & Spray Guns - Spray Gun, Cup, & Tank Set-Ups
		Typical installation of a pressure cup or tank is shown below with single or dual regulators on the cup or tank.
		Single regulator cups and tanks require the air pressure for atomization regulated at extractor with regulator, and fluid pressure at the single regulator on the tank or cup.
		Dual regulator cups and tanks are used in portable painting operations.
	www.finishsystems.com /setups.html (293 words)

	Challenger 2 Tank
		Challenger 2 is equipped with an L30, 120 mm rifled tank gun from the Royal Ordnance.
		The gun is made from electro-slag refined steel (ESR) and is insulated with a thermal sleeve.
		Challenger 2 is also equipped with a 7.62 mm chain gun, which is located to the left of the main tank gun.
	www.army.mod.uk /2rtr/2rtr_today/challenger_2_tank/index.htm (539 words)

	UK Army's New Tank Gun Will End Use of Controversial Uranium-Tipped Shells
		The army is planning to end the use of depleted uranium tank rounds, the most controversial weapon in its armory.
		As part of the enhancement program, the tank will be fitted with a different gun which can fire a wider variety of more effective, and less controversial, ammunition types.
		Recent advances in tank ammunition have also led to the development of a new generation of rounds that will no longer be dependent on depleted uranium to achieve the same level of penetration against modern armour.
	www.commondreams.org /cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines03/0921-05.htm (822 words)

	105mm Gun Tank M60
		The M60 was an evolution of the M48A2 Patton tank, and bears a strong family resemblance.
		Unlike the earlier tank, the M60 has a wedge-shaped front hull and forged aluminum wheels versus the M48A2's boat-shaped front hull and steel road wheels.
		The 105mm gun M68 was a license-produced version of Britain's L7 gun, but was fitted with an eccentric bore evacuator instead of a concentric model in order to provide more clearance over the rear deck.
	afvdb.50megs.com /usa/m60.html (941 words)

	PT-76 Light Amphibious Tank
		A great number of PT tanks were additionally fitted with the DShKM 12.7-mm Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun mounted placed on the roof during their modernizations.
		Tank is completed with a 5 gear manual transmission similar to the well known T-34-85 Medium Tank.
		Tank is fitted with a tank communication device, radio station, Nuclear, Biological, Chemical protection system, automatic fire extinguishing system, thermo smoke equipment, gyro compass and a night vision device.
	www.enemyforces.com /tanks/pt76.htm (1236 words)

	2A29 "Rapira" 100-mm Smoothborne Anti-Tank Gun
		It was used with the 2A19 gun and remained in the new mount.
		Military conflicts in showed that the 2A29 gun is mostly used not as an anti-tank but as an ordinary division or corpse artillery unit.
		Recently this artillery gun is morally out-dated due to it's uncertain penetration of the modern main battle tanks, firing with an ordinary projectiles.
	www.enemyforces.com /artillery/rapira.htm (613 words)

	British 2 Pdr. Anti-Tank Gun 40 mm L.52
		More than 500 of these guns were lost in the course of the 1940 campaign in France, but the remaining weapons continued to serve quite well against the Italian tanks encountered in North Africa.
		anti-tank gun had already been placed in the summer of 1940, but the gun could not be produced until 1941, and the first issue did not reach the troops in the desert until mid-1942.
		Armoured cars and light tanks which could not be upgraded to a larger gun, received the Little John attachment to keep them in service a while longer.
	miniatures.de /html/int/AT-40mm-2pdr.html (433 words)

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		Western 120mm guns, like the basic Rheinmetall, can optimally group at little more than 0,5m from that range, so when compared to layout of target there's not a big possibility that due to the limitations of gun accuracy itself there would be (at least a lot of) misses.
		From 2000-3000 meters onwards their accuracy suffers serious inflation in comparision with western guns, but still at the same 3km they will group in some 1,5m, which, concerning again the profile of the intended target, in itself is good enough to guarantee acceptable accuracy on point target.
		Soviet tanks as such are pretty sturdy platforms for "quality" gunnery at ranges less than 3km, with today's western style FC for even more maybe (at this range they can compete somewhat well with western tanks, considering the equal crew issue).
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/2-5534.aspx (993 words)

	WWII Tank Destroyers
		Fitted with the American version of the old French 75 gun it was sent to the Phillipines in 1941 and was first used by the TD's in Tunisia.
		This high velocity anti-tank gun was mounted on a split trailed carnage (modified from the 105 howitzer), with a sloped armor shield.
		It’s gun crew consisted of a Gun Commander a Gunner, a Driver, and seven Cannoneers.
	www.tankdestroyersociety.com /tanks.htm (276 words)

	Anti-tank Gun
		The 75mm Anti-Tank Gun is hoisted from its trailer and prepared to be lowered on to a concrete pad.
		The Historical Society of the Georgia National Guard installed its third piece of weaponry at Oglethorpe Armory Aug. 7, with with the help of the Georgia Army Guard, a 75mm gun, refurshed in 1940 as an anti-tank gun was mounted on a concrete pad.
		Cost of refurbishing the gun to its 1940s look was several thousand dollars, all donated by members of the Historical Society.
	www.hsgng.org /pages/antitankgun.htm (123 words)

	Italian Tanks
		The CV was not meant to be used in lieu of heavier tanks, but was designed according to the Italian doctrine of the period, for security and reconnaissance duties, and was also to be utilized in the elimination of small pockets of resistance.
		More than 75% of the tank formations encountered by the British in their desert offensive of late 1940 and early 1941 were comprised of the L.3, whose armor was not even proof against the armament of British armored cars which they encountered.
		The M 13/40 was the best known of the Italian tanks used during the war, and along with it's improved version, the M 14/41, was the standard medium tank used by the Italian armored forces.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~akirk/tanks/Italy/ItalianTanks.html (2198 words)

	Panzer Front German Tank Profiles
		The main gun that equipped the early (Ausfuhrung A-E) Stugs was a low velocity, 75mm StuK37 L/24 gun, this gun was designed as a support weapon with a highly effective high explosive shell.
		Due to the size and weight of the gun with it’s ammunition and the limitations of the chassis, hull side armour was limited to that which would stop a heavy machine gun bullet and the frontal armour wasn’t very much thicker.
		Armament consisted of an 88mm gun of 71 calibres in length with stowage for 84 rounds of ammunition, and two 7.92mm machineguns were mounted in the hull and coaxial to the main gun.
	www.geocities.com /panzerfrontuk/TankProfilesGerman.html (2889 words)

	The Russian Battlefield - 100mm D-10 Tank Gun (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The gun was returned for repairing, but the field officers more liked the tank fitted with an S-34, that alleviated the task of the gunners.
		It should be noted that an armor-piercing shell for a 100mm gun was in production only in November of 1944, when it was found out that due to the significant degradation of armor on German tanks, the effectiveness of the 122mm guns mounted on the JS tanks significantly increased.
		With the explosive shells, 122mm shell was superior to that of the 100mm, which is why GKO made a decision against the mount of D-10 in heavy tanks, which is indicated in mail about the mounting of 100mm gun on the JS tanks.
	www.battlefield.ru /index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=106&Itemid=60 (890 words)

	Russian T-90
		The gun is stabilized in two planes and loaded by an autoloader, whose magazine stores 22 rounds to be fired first.
		It is also attributable to the enhanced gun's firing accuracy and longer range (including firing missiles), application of more powerful ammunition, improved characteristics of the fire control system, and reduced first-round firing preparation time.
		The greatest improvement is the automated fire control system, allowing the commander and gunner to conduct aimed fire from the tank gun effectively over long ranges using projectiles and guided missiles, on the move and at halt, against moving and stationary targets, by day and night, as well as to fire the coaxial machine gun.
	www.tanksim.com /topic3.htm (1445 words)

	1/5 Scale Sherman Tank
		The 75 mm gun was replaced late in the war by a more powerful 76 mm gun with a much longer barrel, and some Shermans were equipped with a 105 mm howitzer.
		This gun is a mock up of a pneumatic cannon I've designed (but not yet finished testing) specifically for this tank.
		Tank pressure will be about 100 psi, regulated down to a much lower pressure for the gun.
	www.gizmology.net /tanks.htm (3327 words)

	German Tiger tank - development history and photos
		As it was, the Tiger 1 was the first tank to mount the 88mm gun in a fully traversable turret.
		As was usual with German tanks during that time, it was equipped with a ball mounted machine gun fitted on the front right side of the hull.
		The Tiger tank served in all fronts of the western, eastern, and African theatres where it proved to be a formidable tank.
	www.worldwar2aces.com /tiger-tank (3303 words)

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		The biggest gun mounted on a railcar was this: link The German gun had an operational career of 13 days, during which it fired 48 shells in battle.
		The tank is mounted on a landing skid.
		The gun would foul with caseless ammunition, gun firing would interfere with missile electronics, and the entire vehicle recoiled with unusual vigor when the gun was fired, since the 152mm gun was too big for the light-weight chassis.
	www.strategypage.com /militaryforums/2-13493.aspx (1858 words)

	Army Technology - Merkava 4 Main Battle Tank
		The tank is capable of carrying eight infantry soldiers, a command group or three litter patients (stretcher casualties) in addition to the tank crew of commander, loader, gunner and driver.
		The tank is capable of firing on the move at moving targets and has demonstrated high hit probability in firing against attack helicopters using conventional anti-tank munitions.
		The new gun is an advanced generation of the gun developed for the Merkava 3.
	www.army-technology.com /projects/merkava4/index.html (1171 words)

	Aldershot Military Museum
		Along side hundreds of objects ranging from a hoof pick to a search light, there are also many things to do.
		It was built for him in 1947 to house his war time caravans and was moved to the museum in 1995 and houses some of the museum's collection of larger exhibits including field guns and other vehicles.
		Officially opened in November 2006, this 1930s wooden barrack block came from Queen Elizabeth Barracks, Church Crookham, and was once the home of the Regimental Administration Offices for the camp.
	www.hants.gov.uk /museum/aldershot/collections/conbat.html (387 words)

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