The pak 40 anti-tank gun fired one type of ammo.Then they created a smaller version for the Panzer IV.Then there was another one for the Stug II and Stug IV.Then the jagdpanzer IV had another one.Wouldn't be possible to create an universal 7.5cm cannon projectile for all those guns?Wouldn't it have simplified logistics?
>>65208943Because the breech assembly of those different types of 7.5 cm guns, wouldn't fit otherwise inside their designated vehiclesJagdpanzer IV had the KwK 42 L/70 from the Panther. Different gun>Stug II(You) mean III
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>>65208943Ww2 Germany is what happens when the "ideas" guy of the team never gets told to fuck off.
Because autism
>>65208943The Pak 40 fired one versionThe Panzer IV, Stug III/IV and other Jagdpanzers used a second version.The only other 75mm version was an outright different gun (L/70) which, no wonder it has a different case.Two versions of the 75mm is not that bad.
>>65208943>>65209253The field mounted PaK 40 was developed as a larger version of the 5 cm PaK 38, both the gun and carriage. The field PaK 40 used a percussion primer. When mounted on / in vehicles it used an electrical primer. Ammunition casing was shortened on the KwK 40 tank - StuG version of the gun for internal storage capacity. Early Pz IV Ausf F/G had the KwK L/43 gun and the later IV G through J had KwK L/48, as did StuG F/8 and G and the initial (700) Jagdpanzer IVs; later Jagd IVs had the KwK 42 L/70 (Panther main gun)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.5_cm_KwK_40
>>65209275All of the tank versions of the Pak40 used the same cartridge.The Pak40 had a longer more narrow cartridge because it didn't need to care about space concerns
>>65209300Preferably an anti-tank gun is fired from longer range as well. And if not, you really need it to pen.
>>65209353The Pak and KwK had the same velocity, the Pak's cartridge was longer but not as wide, for the same case volume.
>>65209376I was ignorant of that fact. Interesting.
>>65208943Abwechslung ist die Würze des Lebens.
>>65209231>When you get rid of all your Jews leading to you having horribly managed projects and budgets
The fact that Germany's production system was dispersed among small and medium-sized domestic manufacturers may have been advantageous when creating slight variations on a particular weapon.
>>65209434>>When you get rid of all your Jews leading to you having horribly managed projects and budgetsThats pretty rich coming from an american.
>>65209231That's a pretty stupid way of looking at it. Germany had some stupid projects (As did everyone else) but most of them were pretty sensible and made sense given the context of the war.
A really stupid idea is to have higly ineffective HE for M1 gun just to match AP ballistics.
>>65209686Meanwhile the Germans realized you could just lower the propellant charge, allowing the Panther's hypervelocity gun to have just as much HE potential as the Sherman 75
>>65209690Indeed Sprgr 40 for KwK 42 was even better than Sprgr 34 for KwK 37/40.
What if instead of creating larger and more powerful cannons. The germans just made a shaped charge ammo to their tanks?Shaped charge penetration is much higher than anything else and doesn't need high velocity.All they had to do is make it very precise and flight stable.
Nice varmint rounds.
