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Weapons · Germany · 1941-1945

7.5cm PaK 40

anti-tank gun

Germany's standard towed anti-tank gun for most of the war, developed in a rush after the shock of meeting Soviet T-34s and KV-1s in 1941, it could penetrate almost any Allied tank at normal combat ranges and was also fitted to numerous self-propelled tank destroyers.

Wikipedia

caliber75mm
penetration~96mm at 500m (PzGr 39 APCBC, plate at 30 degrees)
weight1,425 kg
produced~23,300

Western Europe, Eastern Front, Mediterranean and North Africa

Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien 7,5cm PaK 40
Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien 7,5cm PaK 40Stefan97 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
7.5cm PaK 40
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For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Vom Bandenkrieg in Bosnien Mitten auf der Strasse einer von
For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Vom Bandenkrieg in Bosnien Mitten auf der Strasse einer vonThiede · CC BY-SA 3.0 de · source