What is the largest gun on a tank?

The 127th Ordinance Research Institute's news 125mm tank cannon is the world' largest, with a barrel length over 7.5 meters and highly powerful shells.
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What is the big gun on a tank called?

A tank gun is the main armament of a tank. Modern tank guns are high-velocity, large-caliber artilleries capable of firing kinetic energy penetrators, high-explosive anti-tank, and cannon-launched guided projectiles. Anti-aircraft guns can also be mounted to tanks.
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What tank has the biggest barrel?

The SU-152 "Taran" was armed with the 152.4 mm M-69 "Taran" rifled gun, with a barrel length of 9045 mm, fitted with a powerful muzzle brake. With an overall length of about 10 meters it is the longest gun of any type ever installed in a fully enclosed armoured fighting vehicle.
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What gun can shoot through a tank?

An anti-tank rifle is an anti-materiel rifle designed to penetrate the armor of armored fighting vehicles, most commonly tanks, armored personnel carriers, and infantry fighting vehicles.
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Can a sniper stop a tank?

While the tank is blinded, anti-tank teams can move in. By far the ways snipers have killed tanks is with a dedicated anti-tank rifle. This is a very large, very heavy rifle designed to penetrate about thin armor at 100 to 300 meters. Anti-tank rifles were developed between WWI and WWII.
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What caliber is a tank shell?

Gun calibers have standardized around a few common sizes, especially in the larger range, mainly due to the uniformity required for efficient military logistics. Shells of 105 and 155 mm for artillery and 105mm and 120 mm for tank guns in NATO.
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What tank has the biggest gun War Thunder?

The FV4005 holds the distinction of being the single largest cannon available in War Thunder Ground Forces at 183 mm, as well as having a very long single-shell reload with a stock time of 38.9 seconds. It can only fire HESH (High Explosive Squash Head) shells and has a limited turret rotation of ±45°.
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How many bullets can a tank carry?

The main armament of the tank is a 125mm 2A46M-5 high accuracy gun. The cannon can fire different types of ammunition. The tank has the capacity to carry up to 40 rounds of 125mm ammunition.
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Can a cannon destroy a tank?

Using the cannon, the A-10 is capable of disabling a main battle tank from a range of over 6,500 m. While modern battle tanks have quite sophisticated armor protection (for the crew), there are many vital components with less protection.
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What is the largest caliber gun ever made?

Here are 10 of the biggest ever built ranked by caliber.
  • 2B1 Oka. Caliber: 420-millimeter. ...
  • The 100-Ton Gun. Caliber: 450-millimeter. ...
  • BL 18 Inch Railway Howitzer. Caliber: 457.2-millimeter. ...
  • "40cm/45 Type 94" Naval Gun. Caliber: 460-millimeter. ...
  • Mons Meg. Caliber: 520-millimeter. ...
  • Karl-Gerät. ...
  • Schwerer Gustav and Dora. ...
  • Tsar Cannon.
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What is the largest gun on a battleship?

The largest calibre guns ever mounted on a ship were the nine 45.7 cm (18 inch) guns installed on the Japanese battleships Yamato and Musashi. The shells weighed 1,452 kg (3,200 lb) and could be fired 43.5 km (27 miles). Yamato and Musashi were the largest battleships ever to sail.
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How was the Gustav gun destroyed?

Two shots were fired, with the second shell impacting 29.2 miles (47 km) away. The Schwerer Gustav was then disassembled and placed in storage near Chemnitz, Germany in September 1943. The gun remained there until 14 April 1945, when it was destroyed by German troops one day before US soldiers captured the area.
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What is the biggest gun in the world?

The Gustav gun created by the Germans, takes the cake on this one with an 80cm barrel. The Germans first used this gun in World War II; it was designed to pulverize French defensive bunkers in the early days of the war.
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What is the smallest tank in War Thunder?

L3/33 CC - War Thunder Wiki.
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What is the strongest tank in War Thunder?

Introduced in November 2020's New Power update, many have called the West-German Leopard 2A6 the best tank in War Thunder.
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How big was the Tiger tank gun?

The Tiger's 88mm-wide mobile main gun was so formidable that shells often blasted straight through enemy tanks, coming out the other side. Its heavy armour was also so thick that a crew (usually of 5) could mostly park in front of an enemy anti-tank gun without fear of harm.
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Which tank was better tiger or Panther?

The Panther was a compromise. While having essentially the same Maybach V12 petrol (690 hp) engine as the Tiger I, it had better gun penetration, was lighter and faster, and could traverse rough terrain better than the Tiger I. The trade-off was weaker side armour, which made it vulnerable to flanking fire.
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What was Hitler's super weapon?

V-3 – Hitler's 'Supergun'

A battery of 25 gun tubes were sunk into inclined tunnels in the ground, further protected by a vast concrete slab. It was planned to bombard London at a rate of 600 shells an hour. The Allies assumed the site was part of the V-2 rocket programme and launched bombing attacks in late 1943.
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What bullet can penetrate a tank?

SILVER BULLET made from depleted uranium can pierce even the heaviest armor. Uranium shells burn away at the edges upon impact¿a "self-sharpening" that helps them bore into armor. Used as ammunition, it penetrates the thick steel encasing enemy tanks; used as armor, it protects troops against attack.
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What round can penetrate a tank?

The M829 depleted uranium round, aka 'the silver bullet,' may be the anti-tank champion for punching through armor (it'll go through half a meter of steel), but it is a one-trick pony, severely limited against other sorts of target. Fired at a truck or a house, it tends to zip right through, doing little damage.
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Can artillery destroy a tank?

The new weapon represents an exponential leap beyond existing state-of-the art anti-tank weapons such as the TOW and Javelin missiles; the Javelin reaches ranges up to 2.5miles and the TOW missile can hit targets out to 3,000 meters.
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