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The 8.8 cm SK C/32[Note 1] was a German naval gun that was used in World War II.

Description

The 8.8 cm SK C/32 was a gun of modest performance with a shorter chamber which fired a shorter shell. The SK C/32 had a loose one-part barrel with vertical sliding-block breech design. It was designed to replace the older 8.8 cm SK L/45 naval guns on German light cruisers. It is believed they replaced older 8.8 cm SK L/45 guns in twin Dopp LC/32 mounts on the Königsberg-class cruisers, Leipzig-class cruisers and were original equipment on the Spanish cruiser Navarra. The SK C/32in variant of the gun had a loose two-part barrel with vertical sliding-block and was carried on a modified twin 10.5 cm Dopp LC/37 mounting and was intended for the unbuilt M Class light-cruisers.[2]

Ammunition

Fixed type ammunition with and without tracer, which weighed 15.2 kilograms (34 lb) and was 93.2 centimetres (36.7 in) long. Ammunition Types Available:


See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); C - Construktionsjahr (year of design)

References

  • Campbell, John (2002). Naval Weapons of World War Two. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-87021-459-4.
  • Gander, Terry; Chamberlain, Peter (1979). Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939–1945. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-15090-3.
  • Hogg, Ian V. (1997). German Artillery of World War Two (2nd corrected ed.). Mechanicsville, PA: Stackpole Books. ISBN 1-85367-480-X.
  • Rolf, Rudi (1998). Der Atlantikwall: Bauten der deutschen Küstenbefestigungen 1940-1945. Osnabrück: Biblio. ISBN 3-7648-2469-7.
  • Rolf, Rudi (2004). A Dictionary on Modern Fortification: An Illustrated Lexicon on European Fortification in the Period 1800-1945. Middleburg, Netherlands: PRAK.

External links


  1. ^ Campbell, Naval Weapons of WWII, p.251.
  2. ^ Campbell, Naval Weapons of WWII, p.251.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.8_cm_SK_C/32_naval_gun