@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.
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So it’s more or less lost media at this point?
Yeah.
Shame. Let us know if you ever come across it again!
Some new Ammo Data sheets from a later date Geschossringbuch and Sprengladungsringbuch.
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.
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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
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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.
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Maybe someone mistook a 5 for an 8 when it was copied
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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.
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Even the 15 cm Sturm Infanterie Geschütz 33 was equipped with the Stielgranate 42?!
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Well, in case you need to blow up some barricade, blocking troops, I guess.
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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.
It’s basically a giant Mineshell. The penetration range is going to be very low.
Same reason why HESH and some HE shells have very poor penetration performance unless with direct hits.