Most massive AT gun in use by the Werhmacht, produced by Krupp to just 51 unit until 1945. 40/43 APCR (penetration 217mm at 500m, up to 153 mm at 2000m with almost 50% first hit capability. 39/43 APCBC-HE (can penetrate 185 mm at 500m) or the Pzgr. Effective at 2000m and more in almost flat trajecories it could fire indirectly at 15,000m. Use a tailored carriage of the cruciform quad mount. Could fire at 520 m/s (1,706 ft/s) and 700m effective range and armor penetration was 140mm of vertical armor with a common shaped-charge 8 cm W Gr Patr H1 4462.ĪT adaptation by Krupp and Rheintemall of the legendary anti-aircraft 88mm gun. Best performances were obtained with the German-built 7.62 cm Pzgr.40, which can penetrate 158mm of 60° hardened steel at 500m and more.Ĩ cm PAW 600: Semi-experimental high-low pressure gun firing hollow charges, developed by Rheinmetall.
These 76-mm divisional guns model 1936 (F-22) were originally designed as field gun but with AT capabilities in mind. Prod?ħ.62 cm Pak 36(r): Captured Soviet gun, about 560 converted. It could penetrate 172 mm at 500m.Īlso used on the Panther (Kwk 42). With the AP round muzzle velocity was 1,230 m/s (4,035 ft/s), and it was effective at 2200 yards. Krupp Semi-experimental (150 built until 1943) and using the Gerlich principle: Real diameter was 55mm. Effective at 1,800 metres (5,906 ft) in direct fire, with the APCR round muzzle velocity was 933 m/s, it could penetrate 154 mm of straight hardened steel at 500m. German standard WW2 AT Gun, more than 20,000 built until 1945. Best results obtained with Panzergranate 40 APCR shots with a hard tungsten core. The unmodified ones were named in German service 7.5 cm Pak 97/38(f).Įarly standard German AT gun (9500+) produced by Rheinmetall until 1945. But they lacked modern AP shells and had a low muzzle velocity. The Germans have these modified by a new muzzle brake and mounted on a 5 cm Pak 38 carriage, then sent to the Eastern front. Originally 4500 Canon de /33s were in service in WW2 in France alone, and it was also the main dual-purpose gun of the Polish Army. It had a 855 m/s (2,805 ft/s) muzzle velocity.Ĭaptured French AT gun (the venerable 1898 “soixante-quinze”) was declined as an AT gun with pneumatic tires and tailored shield. 38 originally production resumed in 1940 by Skoda Works, and its 775 m/s (2,542 ft/s) muzzle velocity gave the ability to defeat 60 mm of hardened steel (2.4 in) 1,200 metres (1,300 yd).Ĭaptured french AT gun originally called 47 mm APX anti-tank gun which also equipped the Char B1 and S35. They could defeat 87 mm of straight armour at 500m.Ĭaptured Czech AT gun, which famously equipped the Panzerjäger I during the French campaign and catpured R35 tanks. It was a development of the experimental Gerlich’s coned-bore barrel 7 mm anti-tank rifle.Īn airborne version of the regular Pak 36, but using the same squeeze bore principle as described above for a real final caliber of 28 mm. Despite this small caliber, it could launch a projectile 4,500 feet per second (1,400 m/s) at 500m, capable of piercing 52 to 69 mm of hardened steel inclined at 70° at 100m. The 2.8 cm sPzB 41 was Basically a super-high velocity tapering barrel gun of “real” 20mm caliber. Infamously called “door-knocker device” in the 1940 campaign because of its poor perforlances against heavily-armored allied tanks, it was sufficient against lighter armoured vehicle and stayed into service to the last day of the war, recycled to fire shaped-charges like the Stielgränat 41. The wartime German arsenal comprised in all 15 models registered, like the unusual 2.8 cm sPzB 41, the very common 7.5 cm Pak 40, or the fearful 8.8 cm Pak 43.ġ2,000 were built of this light standard infantry AT gun which was the ordnance main issue. German antitank weapons The long lineage of German antitank gunsĭuring WW2 Germany used a great variety of antitank weaponry, starting with a generic light gun and as the war progressed and Germany was found itself on the defensive, better and more powerful antitank guns were developed, as well as rockets, mines and even a guided antitank missile in 1945.įrom 1933 to 1945, the Wehrmacht took delivery to tens of thousands of antitank guns, from the puny standard 37 mm to the legendary 8.8 cm Pak 43 extrapolated from the AA gun.
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