![]() Here's the equally cool Czech version of the 3. This looks like the next generation of it - The Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon was designed by an American, Benjamin Hotchkiss, in response to the Franco-Prussian War. But armor penetration was only 15mm at 500 meters. With a small wheeled carriage, the four man crew of the TaK could follow the infantry into battle. The gun itself was the lash-up of a barrel from an old fortress gun (a Hotchkiss revolving cannon somewhat like the American Gatling gun in concept, thus one old gun made five new TaKs). In the last months of the war, the Germans produced the 3.7cm Tankabwehrkanonen (or TaK). I could not find any of the websites with info on that gun. The guns were never used in action, peace got in the way. Penetration was AFAIK 15mm at 500 meters. defences at Nam nh with her masthead-mounted Hotchkiss canon-revolver. No recoil system but the weight of the gunner. Find the perfect revolver cannon stock photo, image, vector, illustration or. So barrels of an obsolete revolver cannon were used. The german economy was hanging in the ropes at the time.
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