5.0 cm rapid-loading cannon L / 40
| 5.0 cm rapid-loading cannon L / 40 | |
|---|---|
| General Information | |
| Military designation: | 5.0 cm SK L / 40 |
| Manufacturer country: |
.svg){kind=small} German Empire
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| Development year: | 1882 |
| Model variants: | 2 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Pipe length: | 2,000 mm |
| Caliber : |
50 mm |
| Caliber length : | 40 caliber |
| Cadence : | 12 rounds / min |
| Elevation range: | −5 to +20 degrees |
| Side straightening area: | 360 ° |
| Furnishing | |
| Closure Type : | Wedge lock |
The 5.0 cm SK L / 40 (SK = Schnellladekanone ) was a ship gun of the German Imperial Navy which was used in the First World War .
General
The 1892 developed lightweight quick-firing gun , explicitly as fast charge cannon in the German Navy (Abbreviation: SK) called, replaced the earlier on German from 1893 torpedo boats usual 37 mm Hotchkiss cannon . A modified version was the 5.0 cm torpedo boat cannon L / 40 (5.0 cm TK L / 40) introduced in 1913, which had a lighter mount.
The cannon with its 2.00 m long barrel weighed 280 kg with its mount , the version from 1913 weighed 236 kg. It had a muzzle velocity of 655 m / s and with a projectile weight of 1.75 kg and a tube elevation of 20 ° a range of 6200 meters.
It was the standard cannon on the C / 93 torpedo boat mount on the boats of the types "Torpedoboot 1885", "Torpedoboot 1892" and "Torpedoboot 1897" as well as on the boats of the "Großes Torpedoboot 1898" type from S 90 to S 131 and retrofitted on the Chinese booty boat Taku . Likewise, the so-called division boats D 1 to D 10 and later, unless they received the 5.2 cm SK L / 55 , some of the small coastal torpedo boats of the type AI were armed with them. The Aviso Zieten , the two small cruisers Gefion and Hela as well as the imperial yacht Hohenzollern were equipped with cannons of this type for torpedo boat defense.
The version 5.0 cm TK L / 40 used in a modified mount in 1913 replaced a number of the older cannons and was used on some submarines built during the First World War . Some smaller units were still equipped with this weapon during World War II .
On torpedo boats and small cruisers built from 1906, the 5.0 cm SK L / 40 was then replaced by the 5.2 cm SK L / 55 with its greater muzzle velocity , range and penetration power.
Remarks
- ↑ The coastal torpedo boats had the cannon on the new C / 14 torpedo boat carriage.
- ↑ on the website of navweaps.com, (accessed November 19, 2013)
Web links
- 5.0 cm rapid loading cannon L / 40, from navweaps.com (accessed November 10, 2013)