12.7 cm SK C/34 naval gun

12.7 cm SK C/34 Z 3 Max Schultz aft guns.jpg 300 Aft guns on Z3 Max Schultz Nazi Germany Naval gunCoast-defence gun yes yes 1934–2003 Nazi Germany Norway Greece France Second World War Rheinmetall 1930–1934 Rheinmetall 3645 kg lb us 5.76 m ftin us 5.43 m ftin us (bore) 128 x 680mm R separate-loading, cased charge 28 kg lb 3 128 mm in 3 us 15–18 rpm (maximum) 830 m/s ft/s us 17400 m yd us at 30° vertical sliding-block depends on the mount depends on the mount The 12.7 cm SK C/34SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design) was a German medium-caliber naval gun deployed on destroyers from 1934 through the Second World War. Some of these guns remained in service until 2003 in the coastal defense units of Norway. Despite its name the caliber was actually 12.8 cm. Characteristics The 12.7 cm SK C/34 was used on the Type 34, Type 36 and Type 36B destroyers as well as the sloop Grille, the training ship Bremse and the torpedo boats Leopard and Luchs. They were also intended for the unbuilt Type 38B destroyers, Type 40 torpedo-boats and the Type XI U-boats. These guns were either mounted on single hand worked MPLC/34 mounts, converted 10.5 cm MPLC/28 mounts or in two twin Drh LC/38 mounts for Type XI U-boats.Campbell, Naval Weapons of WWII, p.246. The gun could be depressed to -10° and raised to 30°. It had an arc of fire of 360°, meaning that they could rotate a full circle, able to fire at any given point. The gun fired a 28 kg lb on high-explosive shell at a muzzle velocity of 830 m/s ft/s us to a range of 17400 m yd us.http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_5-45_skc34.php Germany 12.7 cm/45 (5") SK C/34 navweaps.com 2 August 2016 23 September 2017 DiGiulian Tony Eight of the naval guns were also purchased by Greece, intended to be used in the construction of two new Greek Destroyers in 1941. However, the outbreak of the Second World War forced the Greek government to cancel their plans. Instead, the Greeks installed the guns to monitor the Corfu strait during the Greco-Italian War. See also List of naval guns Weapons of comparable role, performance and era 4.7 inch QF Mark IX & XII : equivalent British destroyer guns, firing a shell nearly 12 pounds lighter, to a range 2,000 yards less than the German gun. 5"/38 caliber gun : equivalent US gun, but unlike the German gun had dual-purpose mount allowing anti-aircraft fire. However, the 5"/38 caliber was a lighter weapon, and had a shorter barrel. It fired a shell that was about 15% lighter than the German gun, and was also out-ranged by the German weapon by 1,000 yards. Notes Note Citations 25em References Campbell John Naval Weapons of World War Two Conway Maritime Press London 2002 0-87021-459-4 Gander Terry Chamberlain, Peter Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939–1945 Doubleday New York 1979 0-385-15090-3 Hogg Ian V. German Artillery of World War Two Stackpole Books Mechanicsville, PA 1997 2nd corrected 1-85367-480-X Rolf Rudi Der Atlantikwall: Bauten der deutschen Küstenbefestigungen 1940-1945 Biblio 1998 Osnabrück 3-7648-2469-7 External links SK C/34 on navweaps.com Category:128 mm artillery Category:World War II artillery of Germany Category:Naval guns of Germany Category:World War II naval weapons Category:Coastal artillery Category:Military equipment introduced in the 1930s