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The RK 62 (from Finnish rynnäkkökivääri 62, 'assault rifle 62'), officially 7.62 RK 62 and commercially M62, is an assault rifle manufactured by Valmet and Sako. It is the standard issue infantry weapon of the Finnish Defence Forces. The RK 62 was designed in 1957–1962 by a Valmet engineer Lauri Oksanen [3] and is based on the Polish ...
3,750 m at 9.5° [3] The 21 cm RK L/19 was the later name of a rifled breech loader gun of the Prussian Navy. This gun started with a massive gun barrel, cast from steel in one piece. In 1868 a built-up gun barrel version was tested in Prussia and found to be much more powerful. Many of the massive guns were then changed to built-up guns.
The Krupp guns used prismatic gun powder, the British gun used Pebble-powder. The Krupp 17 cm gun fired with a charge of 11.8 kg, the British 7-inch with 13.6 kg. The results showed that the Krupp 17 cm clearly outclassed the British 7-inch gun. [26] In Japan, the ironclad FusÅ had four 24 cm guns and two 17 cm RK L/25, used as chase guns. [27]
The 15 cm Ring Kanone L/22 or Kurze 15 cm Ring Kanone was a 15 cm 22 caliber long Krupp Ring Kanone (RK). It was a rifled breech loader built-up gun with a Krupp cylindroprismatic sliding breech. It was designed based on the idea that for penetrating armor, it was more effective to increase the charge than to increase the caliber.
Sights. Flip-up dual rear aperture and front post with tritium inserts. 465 mm (18.3 in) sight radius. The RK 95 TP (from Finnish Rynnäkkökivääri 95 taittoperä, 'Assault Rifle 95 folding stock'), officially 7.62 RK 95 TP and commercially known as the M95, is a 7.62×39mm Finnish assault rifle adopted in relatively small numbers by the ...
Saturday night special is a colloquial term in the United States and Canada for inexpensive, compact, small- caliber handguns made of poor quality metal. [1] Sometimes known as junk guns, some states define these guns by means of composition or material strength. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, they were commonly referred to as ...
Muzzle velocity. 446 m/s. [ 4] Effective firing range. 6,000 m (20,000 ft) at 14.10° elevation [ 5] The 21 cm RK L/22 was a 21 cm caliber Krupp gun that was purposefully designed to use a combination of prismatic gunpowder, a built-up gun barrel, and the Krupp cylindroprismatic sliding breech with broadwell ring.
279 mm [2] Breech. horizontal sliding wedge. Muzzle velocity. 415 m/s [2] The 28 cm L/20 M67 was a Russian early breech loading rifled built-up gun designed by Krupp. It was built for the Russian navy and coastal artillery by both Krupp and Obukhov. The gun was the predecessor of the Krupp 28 cm RK L/22 and the Obukhov 28 cm L/22 M77.