Pak 40

[WPmega]

The Pak40 also was able to hitch to the back of jeep's and other GV's so that they could be transported. I would love to see the Pak40 in the game and us be able to hitch to a jeep and unhitch and move around. Would be harder for GV's to see, Thus making GV'ing harder and more fun. The only problem i see which i guess could be called a problem is that we will need a jeep to drop move us because without the jeep to move us we lose all our supplies.

Type Anti-tank gun
Place of origin  Nazi Germany
Service history
In service 1941–1945
Used by Nazi Germany
Finland
Norway (postwar)
Wars World War II
Production history
Designer Rheinmetall
Designed 1939–1941
Manufacturer Rheinmetall
Produced 1941–1945
Number built Approx. 23,500
Specifications
Weight 1,425 kilograms (3,140 lb) (in action)
Length 6.2 metres (20.3 ft)
Barrel length 3.45 metres (11.3 ft)

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Caliber 75 mm L/46
Breech semi-automatic horizontal sliding block
Carriage split trail
Elevation -5° to +22°
Traverse 65°


Caliber: 75 mm L/46
Rifling: 32 Grooves, right-hand increasing twist, 1/24 to 1/18.
Length with the carriage: 6.2 metres (20.3 ft)
Length: 3.45 metres (11.3 ft)
Width: 2 metres (6.6 ft)
Height: 1.25 metres (4.1 ft)
Weight (combat ready): 1,425 kilograms (3,142 lb)
Traverse: 65°
Elevation: -5° to + 22°
Rate of fire: 14 rounds per minute
Muzzle velocity:
933 metres per second (3,061 ft/s) (Tungsten cored round)
792 metres per second (2,598 ft/s) (Standard armour piercing)
548 metres per second (1,798 ft/s) (HE)
Engagement range: 1,800 metres (5,906 ft)
Indirect range: 7,678 metres (25,190 ft) m (HE shell)
Projectile weight: 3.18 kilograms (7.0 lb) to 6.8 kilograms (15.0 lb)
Armor penetration (at 90 degrees) at 500 metres (1,640 ft):
132 millimetres (5 in) (Standard armour piercing)
154 millimetres (6 in) (Tungsten cored round)

[Rich46yo]

Gotta hand it to the bloody Hun. He could whip up some armor kick arse.

I'm not to familiar with this kind of weapon. How was it deployed and how many men/guns supported it?

It looks real portable. Real low silhouette. Really, really, really, good gun with good ammo. I vote 

[WPmega]

Took Two men.

One man on each side of it. They had to work hand in hand to get it to aim... its aiming was like a 20mm on a WW2 Battleship.

Deployed in two ways. One the two men that maned it could carry it. OR they could hitch it to a GV.


<<S>>

JB76, LTARwolf.

[Simba]

Prefer the British 6-pounder meself - the Tsetse Mosquito carried one in the nose; at 57mm bore, the Molins adaptation of the Army's anti-tank gun was the largest-calibre gun ever used operationally by the RAF.

    

[VooWho]

You know the Pak40 could be towed by the Sd.kfz and it give the Sd.kfz a bit more use since it could have the option to tow the Pak40, but at a cost of not being able to transport troops or supplies.

[WPmega]

i know the coding for this might be a pain in the rear but i think that this would be a great thing to have.

Even if it was to be perked since it is so small.

[Megalodon]

Feuer!!!

"Photo from unidentified location shows an SS crew manning a Pak 40 75 mm anti-tank gun, the standard anti-tank gun used by German forces in WW II (Pak denoted Panzerabwehrkanone). Rheinmetall-Borsig AG produced 23,303 Pak 40s from 1942 to 1945. As with all German anti-tank guns it could fire high-explosive rounds and was used as a field gun in divisional artillery in large units. (An experienced crew could fire 14 rounds per minute.) The barrel was 3,450 mm (11.5 ft.) in length and had a semiautomatic horizontally sliding breech block. Like the 5-cm gun, it had a split trail and a double artillery shield 4 mm thick. Its maximum armor-piercing capability was 91 mm (3.6 in.) of steel at 500 meters (550 yds.) and 80 mm (3.2 in.) at 1,000 meters (1,100 yds.). With improved ammunition, these numbers could be increased to 108 or 87 mm (4.3 or 3.5 in.), respectively. With hollow-charge projectiles, 90 mm (3.6 in.) of armor could be penetrated at any combat distance to a maximum of 1,800 meters (1,980 yd.). Its weight (1,425 kg) was a drawback as it was difficult to manhandle through mud, snow, or rough terrain, prevalent during the campaign in Russia."

"The crew of a 7.5cm Pak 40 jump for joy after a successful engagement, another kill ring to be painted on the barrel."
neu laden!


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Or maybe..

7.5cm PaK 40/4 auf Raupenschlepper Ost

 

[Ghosth]

I'd love to see towed arty arrive in AH. Everything from the multi use deadly German 88 to WWI era french 75's.
By all means please include the Pak40.

[waystin2]

I would love to see something like this.  +1

[mbailey]

2 or 3 gents sitting up on the hill, hammering town with 88's  

Pak 40s set up around a Vbase for defence  

+1

[WPmega]

so far iv gotten nothing but 
that makes me really happy ^.^

now for Hitech to get in here and see what they think.

[442w30]

add another   

Towed arty and SP guns would be a hoot. 

[VooWho]

I'd just think Pak40s and 88s would be so much fun!
 
Pak40



Pak36



88mm

[AWwrgwy]

so far iv gotten nothing but 
that makes me really happy ^.^

now for Hitech to get in here and see what they think.

Well.....

 

I'm all for more lightly armored, non-mobile targets that only point in one direction.

That's not negative, is it?


wrongway

[Spikes]

How would this be coded...one person would drive the Skdfz thingy, another 'spawns' a Pak 40. From there, the Halftrack presses a key command to hook the Pak up to the Halftrack. While the Pak 40 spawner is on his ride, he can gun in the Halftrack, and what not. The Halftrack can unmount the Pak by the same key command, and the Pak 40 can hammer a town?