28 cm SK L/45 gun
28 cm SK L/45 | ||
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Breech Horizontal sliding-wedge | | |
Muzzle velocity | 855 to 875 m/s (2,810 to 2,870 ft/s) |
The 28 cm SK L/45
Description
The 28 cm SK L/45 gun weighed 39.8 metric tons (39.2 long tons; 43.9 short tons), had an overall length of 12.735 meters (41 ft 9.4 in) and its bore length was 12.006 meters (39.39 ft). Although designated as 28 cm (11 in), its actual caliber was 28.3 centimeters (11.1 in). It used the
History
Mounted on Nassau-class battleships and the battlecruiser SMS Von der Tann.
Coast defense guns
Three guns were mounted at Battery Goeben on Husøya island, near Trondheim, Norway and formed Naval Coast Artillery Battery (Marine Artillerie Batterie) "Goeben", later 1st Battery, Naval Artillery Battalion (1./Marine Artillerie Abteilung) 507 "Husöen".[1][2]
Another three guns were mounted at Battery Tirpitz on the Romanian coast, south of Constanța, from April 1941[3] to August 1944, when the battery was destroyed by the retreating Germans.[4][5] The battery, like all Axis forces in Romania, was nominally under Romanian control, but operated by Kriegsmarine personnel,[6] and contributed to the defence of Constanța in 1941.[7]
See also
Footnotes
- ^ SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); L - Länge in Kaliber (length in caliber)
References
- ^ "Artillergruppe Örlandet". www.nuav.net. Archived from the original on 25 September 2007. Retrieved 19 August 2009.
- ^ "28 cm SK L/45". bunkersite.com. Archived from the original on 29 February 2012. Retrieved 22 September 2012.
- ISBN 978-0-7509-6896-6.
- ISBN 978-973-98093-7-5.
- ^ Romania: Pages of History. AGERPRES Publishing House. 1989.
- ISBN 978-1-84603-651-4.
- ISBN 978-1-59114-119-8.
Bibliography
- Campbell, John (2002). Naval Weapons of World War Two. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-87021-459-4.
- Gander, Terry; Chamberlain, Peter (1979). Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939–1945. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-15090-3.
- Hogg, Ian V. (1997). German Artillery of World War Two (2nd corrected ed.). Mechanicsville, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 1-85367-480-X.
- Rolf, Rudi (1998). Der Atlantikwall: Bauten der deutschen Küstenbefestigungen 1940-1945. Osnabrück: Biblio. ISBN 3-7648-2469-7.
- Rolf, Rudi (2004). A Dictionary on Modern Fortification: An Illustrated Lexicon on European Fortification in the Period 1800-1945. Middleburg, Netherlands: PRAK.
- Schmalenbach, Paul (1983). "German Navy Large Bore Guns Operational Ashore During World War I". Warship International. XX (2): 123–153. ISSN 0043-0374.
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