WWII PaK on wheels

WWII PaK on wheels

While touring the sub levels of the security installation there is a description of the weapon room. Among the most prominent weapons she sees is a WWII PaK on wheels (The Other Story )

>>>We went through a strong steel double door. Inside was a cavernous place with rows of steel shelves and racks. It smelled of metal and gun oil. There were hundreds, no thousands of guns and weapons. On the spotless floor prminent a 50 cal machine gun on a tripod, there also was a Milan Anti Tank weapon and a 81 mm mortar. A WWII PaK on wheels. Rows and rows of M 16s, AK47s , AR 15ts , Armalite , G3 , FN and every assault rifle I could think of.<<<

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Panzerabwehrkanone, usually referred to with the acronym PaK, is the German language term for anti-tank gun. Before and during World War II, the German Army produced a series of 13 anti-tank guns which they designated Panzerabwehrkanone, i.e. PaK. In addition they produced one weapon they designated an anti-tank rifle, which is generally considered to actually be an anti-tank gun; and one gun they designated Panzerabwehrwerfer, PAW, the anti-tank launcher.

Description In military terminology, a gun is a weapon too heavy to be hand held when fired. These weapons ranged from a weight of 229 kg (500 lb) to a weight of 10,160 kg (20,000 lb). The smallest caliber was 28 mm (1 in) and the largest was 128 mm (5 in).

Over the six-year course of World War II the armor of the tanks steadily improved, so in order to be effective the size of the projectile had to increase. A larger projectile required a heavier weapon.

All of these guns were meant to be towed. The earlier ones were light weight enough to be moved by hand, over short distances, into, and out of, their firing positions. Some variants were only used on tank destroyers, which are self-propelled, like the canons on tanks.