Someone posted information in a thread on the axis history forum:
There was a project for a new 10.5cm anti-tank gun.
However only prototypes were developed and the 12.8cm was chosen instead, as it could be used as field artillery as well.
So the gun and ammo existed but nothing ever came out of the project, apart from the proposal for a more powerful armament for the Tiger II.
@Ghostmaxi @KillaKiwi Great stuff lads, thanks a lot. I’m guessing no photos of the gun itself exist?
I have one in my memory tho its only the barrel and breech, tho i cant find it anymore.
So it’s more or less lost media at this point?
Yeah.
Shame. Let us know if you ever come across it again!
Interestingly they also made a HEAT round for the russian 15,2 cm guns. So KW-II 755 (r) can also get a heat round.
I like to visit such threads. I always find something very unexpected :D
Edit: OH MY GOD, APFSDSHE-T :D
Edit2: does it have tracer? Can’t tell. But it should. Also ballistic cap would add 2 more letters, will have to look it up again tomorrow. I doubt it’s capped, but best case scenario would be the ultimate APCBCFSDSHE-T
Interestingly, the Gr.38 HL/C is fired at 480m/s from the FK 16 n.A. instead of 450m/s of all other guns.
Maybe someone mistook a 5 for an 8 when it was copied
But its hand written.
Yeah but it’s a compilation, so that data must be from somewhere else.
Maybe it was already wrong or who wrote it down mistoke it for a 8.
Or it could be correct.
Ok, looked at the Shooting table for it, either they changed it or its wrong. Or its the Wornbarrel thing again.
Even the 15 cm Sturm Infanterie Geschütz 33 was equipped with the Stielgranate 42?!
Well, in case you need to blow up some barricade, blocking troops, I guess.
Or launch something at enemy capzone (shooting it at a spawn is pointless, at 100m/s it would take like 1 minute to get there, and that assuming it even has range to do that, and it doesn’t).
It has as much use in WT as the Churchill AVRE
I mean, this one when fired at 45 degrees would go almost 1000m, so that’s like 8 times better than Churchill *etard. Still rather useless, but also pretty funny if you manage to lob it over buildings and hit somebody.
It also has just over 3 times the TNT equivalent. It can score some splash-kills, thought not quite to the same extent as the Sturmtiger.
