Also i think i am getting there on the photo uploading front touch wood.
Daz
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3.7cm Pak AP
- Thread starter DAZ REICH
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Also i think i am getting there on the photo uploading front touch wood.
Daz
Hi Daz Reich,
The only thing i can think of that it is used to train the troops in loding the gun with that type of base on your case with the four holes, but it can also be that they were trying to save Brass.
Have also seen it on USSR cases found in east germany.
Cheers Mad.
The only thing i can think of that it is used to train the troops in loding the gun with that type of base on your case with the four holes, but it can also be that they were trying to save Brass.
Have also seen it on USSR cases found in east germany.
Cheers Mad.
Quatermass
Well-Known Member
Hi Daz.
You've got a 3.7cm Pak Pzgr, fuze Bd Z 5103.
This was the standard APHE shell when the gun was introduced.
Your case is a correct early two piece brass and steel type.
The pictures Spotter posted are for the Czech Skoda 37mm Kanone P.U.V. vz 37 (3.7cm Pak 34(t) in German service).
Hope that helps.
Quatermass
You've got a 3.7cm Pak Pzgr, fuze Bd Z 5103.
This was the standard APHE shell when the gun was introduced.
Your case is a correct early two piece brass and steel type.
The pictures Spotter posted are for the Czech Skoda 37mm Kanone P.U.V. vz 37 (3.7cm Pak 34(t) in German service).
Hope that helps.
Quatermass
Quatermass
Well-Known Member
The colour would have been black with red stencilling.
As for effectiveness both the German and Czech gun had similar performance initially, the Pak 36 recieved new types of ammo that allowed it to stay in service longer than the Czech gun whose devolopment ceased in 1939.
Quatermass
P.S. Many books marvel at the Germans ability to keep weapons in service long after they should have been obsolete (and to all intents and purposes were), but the counter to that point of view is that the other nations simply built new weapons that could do the job.
Its good for collectors as the Germans had all sorts of special rounds, not the way to win a war though, thankfully.
As for effectiveness both the German and Czech gun had similar performance initially, the Pak 36 recieved new types of ammo that allowed it to stay in service longer than the Czech gun whose devolopment ceased in 1939.
Quatermass
P.S. Many books marvel at the Germans ability to keep weapons in service long after they should have been obsolete (and to all intents and purposes were), but the counter to that point of view is that the other nations simply built new weapons that could do the job.
Its good for collectors as the Germans had all sorts of special rounds, not the way to win a war though, thankfully.
Hi,
Have found it but it is in German.
Cheers Mad.
Have found it but it is in German.
Cheers Mad.