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3.7 cm Pak 36 AT-gun w Stielgranate 41 by Uncle T

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340 bricks.

My version of the German WW 2 3.7 cm Pak 36 AT-gun with the shaped charge Stielgranate 41.

The Stielgranate 41 is a bit too big due to available fuel tanks and the stupidly massive RC-unit, and it can of course not fit over the barrel nor can it be reloaded but it works.

Info from Wikipedia
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The Stielgranate 41 (German: "stick grenade"; model 1941) was a German shaped charge, fin-stabilized shell, used with the 3.7 cm Pak 36 anti-tank gun to give it better anti-tank performance.

The design looked like a rifle grenade, only considerably larger. One part of its stem, a stick, was placed inside the gun barrel; the other part, a perforated tube, fitted around it. On the tube there were six stabilizing fins. It was shot with a special blank cartridge at a velocity of 110 m/s (360 ft/s), which gave it maximum range of about 800 m (870 yd) (with gun elevation 25°) and around 180 m point blank range (gun elevation 5°).

The large calibre of the HEAT warhead and shaped charge of 2.42 kg HE, enabled it to penetrate armour 180 mm thick, enough to defeat any World War II tank. The hit was equally dangerous at any distance, as the shaped-charge effect is not dependent on the velocity of the round at the point of impact. However, due to low velocity the grenade was not very accurate, so the effective range against tanks was around 300 m.

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The Pak 36 (Panzerabwehrkanone 36) was a 3.7 cm caliber German anti-tank gun used during the Second World War. It was the main anti-tank weapon of Wehrmacht Panzerjäger units until 1942. It was first issued to the German Army in 1936, with 9,120 being available by the beginning of the war in September 1939 and a further 5,339 produced during the war. As the predominant anti-tank gun design in the world during the late 1930s, demand was high for the Pak 36, with another 6,000 examples produced for export and the design being copied by the Soviet Union as the 45 mm anti-tank gun M1932 (19-K) and by other nations such as Japan.

It first saw service during the Spanish Civil War in 1936, where it performed well against the light tanks of the conflict. It was first used during the Second World War against Poland in 1939 and had little difficulty with any of the Polish tanks. The Battle of France in 1940 revealed its inadequate penetration capability against French and British heavier tanks, particularly the Char B1, and especially the Matilda II, receiving the derisive nicknames "Heeresanklopfgerät" ("army door-knocking device") or "PanzerAnklopfKanone" ("tank door-knocking cannon") from its crews, but it sufficed to defeat the bulk of the Allied armor in the campaign. The invasion of the Soviet Union brought the Pak 36 face to face with large numbers of T-34 and KV-1 tanks, which were invulnerable to its fire. However, 91% of the Soviet tank forces in 1941 consisted of lighter types that lacked sufficient armor to defeat the gun, and the Pak 36 knocked out thousands of such tanks.

The Pak 36 began to be replaced from late 1940 onward by the 5 cm Pak 38 anti-tank gun and from November 1941 by the 7.5 cm Pak 40. This process was accelerated by the engagements with the modern Soviet tanks, and Pak 36 production ceased entirely in early 1943. The introduction in 1942 of the Stielgranate 41 shaped charge gave it the ability to punch through the armor of any Allied tank, but the ammunition's short range made the Pak 36 crews vulnerable to enemy fire and could not solve the gun's basic obsolescence. German paratroopers employed the gun due to its low weight and consequent high maneuverability. The Pak 36 was also used by Axis-allied, second-line, garrison and training units until the end of the war.

The KwK 36 L/45 was the same gun, but used as the main armament on several tanks, most notably the early models of the Panzer III.

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CONTROLS
Alt + Arrow keys or Mouse: Traverse (-30 to +30degrees) and elevation (-5 to +25 degrees).
Fire action 1/Num 1: Fire. It only fires "AP" but there is a bit of HE in there too (32 Standard machine guns and 2 HE), and since machine gun HE does next to nothing I didn't bother to add even more machine guns and weight just for that. Reload time about 5 seconds.
Fire action 2/Num 2: Fire the Stielgranate 41. FIRE THIS FIRST!
X / Disable steering: Limber/Unlimber.
Spacebar: Hand brake. Keep the hand brake on when shooting to lessen recoil, but dont forget to release when towing.
Camera 1: Gun sight.

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