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44 COMPANY OFFICER'S HANDBOOK 'Fype_............................... 75-amm light infantry howitzer 150-mm heavy infantry howitzer German designation... 7.5 cn le.I.G. 18 15 cm sl.G. 33 Identification and Pneumatic tires and disk wheels Solid rubber tires (steel tires recognition..................... when motorized (steel tires when horse-drawn); shield; and artillery wheels when long recoil cylinder under barhorse-drawn); shield with rel; box trail. wavy edge; square breechblock and slipper; box trail (mountain howitzer mod.el (le. Geb. I.G. 18) has a split trail) Length of piece .............. --- .. 10 calibers 11 calibers Muzzlevelocity (maximum) 730 feet per second 790 feet per second Maximum range ................. 3,880 yards 5,140 yards Rate of fire: Maximum. ------- -----. . 15 to 20 rounds per minute ...... Normal ... ........................ 5 to 10 rounds per minute 5 to 7 rounds per minute Ammunition .......................-- Semifixed: high explosive or hol- Semifixed: high explosive, hollow low charge charge, or smoke Weight of projectile ............ 10.6 to 13.2 pounds 83.6 to 85.0 pounds Penetration .........................- 3 feet of wood and dirt cover 6 to 10 feet of wood and dirt cover Fragmentation. .... , ............................... 60 yards laterally, 20 yards forand 10 yards to rear Weight in firing position. ... 880 pounds 3,360 pounds Method of transport............ orse-drawn, motorized, or pack Horse-drawn or motorized in six loads Elevation ......................-..--. 1,292 mils 1,300 mils Depression ............................ 178 mils None Traverse._.. ...-.......... 212 mils 200 mils Remarks .........-........ ... Breech block opened by depressing muzzle and thus raising breech Sliding-wedge breech block; also used on self-propelled mount Figure 28.-Characteristics of the 75-mm and 150-mm infantry howitzers.
22. ANTITANK WEAPONS a. Normal Weapons WEAPONS, OBSTACLES, AND VEHICLES 45 Standard German antitank weapons of regular infantry divisions are designed to obtain maximum penetrations at medium ranges by means of relatively heavy, high-velocity projectiles. To achieve this performance, and in order to provide shields for protection of the gun crews, the Germans have sacrificed some mobility. The sacrifice of mobility was more pronounced as weapons of increasing caliber were introduced. Thus the relatively light 37-mm antitank gun (3.7 cm Pak) is now obsolescent, and is being replaced in the antitank company of the infantry regiment (12 guns) and in the division antitank battalion by the heavier 50-mm antitank gun (5 cm Pak 38), and lately even by the 3,000-pound 75-mm antitank gun (7.5 cm. Pak 40) (fig. 29). The development has reached a climax in the extremely heavy 88-mm antitank gun (8.8 cm Pak 43) (figs. 30 and 31, p. 46), which has recently been encountered in action. (For the principal characteristics of common antitank weapons, see fig. 32a, p. 47.) Figure 29.-75-mm. 50-mm, and 37-mm antitank guns (from left to right).
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