Soviet Gun Rejected, Reborn as Germany's Tank Killer
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Soviet Gun Rejected, Reborn as Germany's Tank Killer
On the twenty-second of July, nineteen forty-two, a nineteen-year-old German private named Günter Halm kept firing a captured Soviet gun on Ruweisat Ridge in Egypt after a hit on his position wounded two of his crew. The British tank attack in front of him broke apart.
What you'll find inside:
The Soviet F-22 divisional gun was adopted on 11 May 1936, and only 2,932 were built before the Red Army dropped it in 1939.
A 1936 troop-trial report said: "Universal gun satisfies no single purpose."
German forces captured more than 1,200 F-22s in 1941-42. Hanomag rebored the chamber for a case about 28 inches long with 2.4 times the propellant.
In 1942 the converted gun fired 49,000 armor-piercing rounds, more than the new PaK 40's 42,430.
It armed about 202 Marder II and 344 Marder III tank destroyers, each carrying only 30 rounds.
The full numbers on F-22 / PaK 36(r) sit in the pinned comment.
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Soviet Gun Rejected, Reborn as Germany's Tank Killer
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#ww2history #wwii #militaryhistory
Soviet Gun Rejected, Reborn as Germany's Tank Killer
On the twenty-second of July, nineteen forty-two, a nineteen-year-old German private named Günter Halm kept firing a captured Soviet gun on Ruweisat Ridge in Egypt after a hit on his position wounded two of his crew. The British tank attack in front of him broke apart.
What you'll find inside:
The Soviet F-22 divisional gun was adopted on 11 May 1936, and only 2,932 were built before the Red Army dropped it in 1939.
A 1936 troop-trial report said: "Universal gun satisfies no single purpose."
German forces captured more than 1,200 F-22s in 1941-42. Hanomag rebored the chamber for a case about 28 inches long with 2.4 times the propellant.
In 1942 the converted gun fired 49,000 armor-piercing rounds, more than the new PaK 40's 42,430.
It armed about 202 Marder II and 344 Marder III tank destroyers, each carrying only 30 rounds.
The full numbers on F-22 / PaK 36(r) sit in the pinned comment.
Subscribe for more weapons history, and name the next machine in the comments.
#WW2 #Marder #PaK36r #F22 #AntiTankGun #T34 #WW2History
Soviet F-22 built: 2,932 (1936-1939). (Wikipedia, F-22)
F-22 weight in action: about 3,570 lb. (Wikipedia, F-22)
F-22s captured by Germany: more than 1,200. (Wikipedia, 7.62 cm Pak 36(r))
Towed PaK 36(r) conversions: 560 (358 in 1942). (Wikipedia, 7.62 cm Pak 36(r))
German cartridge case: about 28 in, 2.4x the propellant. (Wikipedia, 7.62 cm Pak 36(r))
Penetration, German AP shell: about 3.8 in at 1,500 yd. (Wikipedia, 7.62 cm Pak 36(r))
Marder II / Marder III built: about 202 / 344. (Tanks Encyclopedia / Wikipedia, Marder III)
AP rounds fired in 1942: 49,000 (PaK 40: 42,430). (Wikipedia, 7.62 cm Pak 36(r))