"45 with a Long Nose " Topic
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| Tango01 | 19 Oct 2017 11:32 a.m. PST |
"The history of this anti-tank gun began with work done on personal initiative in December of 1941. Before mass production and service on the front lines, the gun, indexed M-42, defeated several similar weapons in trials, including some that were easier to produce, and became the main 45 mm gun of the Red Army. NKVD design bureaus, staffed by imprisoned engineers and designers, existed at several Soviet factories during the pre-war and wartime years. Molotov factory #172, located in the Motovilikha suburb of Molotov (modern day Perm), was no exception…"
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| Rhysius Cambrensis | 19 Oct 2017 2:31 p.m. PST |
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| HidaSeku | 19 Oct 2017 3:34 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 20 Oct 2017 10:51 a.m. PST |
Happy you enjoyed it my friends!. (smile) Amicalement
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| donlowry | 21 Oct 2017 10:24 a.m. PST |
So these guns would not have been common until late '42? |
| AlexWood | 21 Oct 2017 11:52 a.m. PST |
The one in the picture is a retrofit to an M1937 carriage. Spoked wheels…. |
| Fred Cartwright | 21 Oct 2017 12:28 p.m. PST |
So these guns would not have been common until late '42? Correct. Standard 45mm AT gun until then. I must confess to just fielding long nosed versions on the table and use the stats for the standard gun for early battles. The one in the picture is a retrofit to an M1937 carriage. I am pretty sure they built new ones with spoked wheels for a while. |
| donlowry | 22 Oct 2017 9:14 a.m. PST |
According to Wikipedia, they started with spoked wheels and later shifted to disk wheels. |
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