Calibre: 5 cm Length: 300.00 m Weight: kg Breech: horizontal semi-automatic sliding block, percussion
fired Recoil: Carriage: turret Elevation: -10° to +20° Panzer
III Ausf. J Traverse: 360� Sight: TZF5d, TZF5e, Ammunition: Pzgr. Pzgr.39 Pzgr.40 Pzgr.40/1 Rate of fire: 13 rounds per minute Muzzle velocity: 823 m/s Pzgr.39 Effective range: 2,650 m Shell Weight: 2.25 kg Used by: Heer Variants: 5 cm PaK
38 5 cm KwK 38 5 cm KwK 39 5 cm
Flak 214 5 cm BK
The main ammunition round used was the Panzergranate 39 which
could penetrate up to 69 mm of armour plate at a range of
100 metres and 59 mm at a range of 500 metres
Gallery:
Heer Comments
Sources:
German Military Vehicles.
ISBN-10: 087349783X
Armoured Fighting Vehicles of Germany World War II.
ISBN-10: 0214203077
Encyclopedia of German Tanks of World Two.
ISBN-10: 1854095188