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Rifling twist in Artillery cannons
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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 569244" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>wasn't it Mr. Cooper who said the hardest thing he ever say on an Allied tank was the 75mm gun used on a Panther</p><p> </p><p>The Germans had several anti tank cannons of different calibers, and more than one are very interesting. There was one smoother rifle that used a tungsten cored anti tank round that had a tapered barrel! The barrel shrank from 88mm down to 50mm, and velocities were a little under 5,000fps. There are a couple photos of them being used on the eastern front and in the streets of Berlin. That 50mm Sabot was said to be able to crack the hull of any tank on the planet with ease. There was also a similar looking piece that used a 128mm round that had over 2000 meters of effective range, and was known to have penetrated the glaciest plate out front and exited thru the deisel engine out back! Then there was the generic 75mm PAK 40 that was only about 40" tall. Could drill a hole thru just about anything with ease. Russians had deep respect with anything that started out with the letters PAK! That particular anti tank rifle held the long distance one shot kill record till Desert Storm (3300 yards on a KV1)</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 569244, member: 25383"] wasn't it Mr. Cooper who said the hardest thing he ever say on an Allied tank was the 75mm gun used on a Panther The Germans had several anti tank cannons of different calibers, and more than one are very interesting. There was one smoother rifle that used a tungsten cored anti tank round that had a tapered barrel! The barrel shrank from 88mm down to 50mm, and velocities were a little under 5,000fps. There are a couple photos of them being used on the eastern front and in the streets of Berlin. That 50mm Sabot was said to be able to crack the hull of any tank on the planet with ease. There was also a similar looking piece that used a 128mm round that had over 2000 meters of effective range, and was known to have penetrated the glaciest plate out front and exited thru the deisel engine out back! Then there was the generic 75mm PAK 40 that was only about 40" tall. Could drill a hole thru just about anything with ease. Russians had deep respect with anything that started out with the letters PAK! That particular anti tank rifle held the long distance one shot kill record till Desert Storm (3300 yards on a KV1) gary [/QUOTE]
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