Becker cannon
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| General Information | |
| Military designation: | 2 cm aircraft cannon (Becker) |
| Manufacturer country: | The German Imperium |
| Developer / Manufacturer: | Becker steel works |
| Development year: | 1914 |
| Production time: | 1917 to 1918 |
| Weapon Category: | Automatic cannon |
| Technical specifications | |
| Pipe length: | 80 cm |
| Caliber : |
20 mm |
| Caliber length : | L / 40 |
| Cadence : | 240 rounds / min |
| Elevation range: | 15 ° - 80 ° (base pivot) angular degrees |
| Side straightening area: | 360 ° |
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The Becker cannon was an automatic cannon for 20 × 70 mm projectiles.
description
It was a recoil loader with an unlocked mass lock , which was also installed as a movable cannon in so-called giant aircraft and in Zeppelin airships. Mounted on a tripod, it was used against tanks and aircraft. It was aimed by hand, the magazine held ten or 15 rounds. During the First World War it was used exclusively by the German Reich a. a. in the air force and in naval airships.
history
It was developed in 1914 in the Reinhold Becker steelworks in Willich , which was founded in 1908 . For reasons of secrecy, weapons were not patented in Prussia . The Becker cannon was registered for a patent at Oerlikon-Bührle in 1919 for Maschinenbau AG Seebach ( SEMAG ). In 1923 the machine tool factory in Oerlikon was bought by the machine tool factory Magdeburg GmbH and Emil Georg Bührle was appointed director. In 1924 SEMAG , which was located next to the machine tool factory Oerlikon , was liquidated and it acquired the patent for the Becker cannon from the bankruptcy assets of SEMAG .
In 1927, the Oerlikon machine tool factory developed the 20 mm Oerlikon cannon from the Becker cannon .
Individual evidence
- ↑ German Automatics at quarryhs.co.uk ( Memento from September 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Swiss industrialists. Emil Bührle