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5,783 m (5,230 yds) (ground range) Feed system. 20 round box magazine. The Flak 30 ( Flugzeugabwehrkanone 30) and improved Flak 38 were 20 mm anti-aircraft guns used by various German forces throughout World War II. It was not only the primary German light anti-aircraft gun but by far the most numerously produced German artillery piece ...
Cylindrical magazine holding 60 rounds, Later adjusted to be a belt fed gun. The Oerlikon 20 mm cannon is a series of autocannons based on an original German Becker Type M2 20 mm cannon design that appeared very early in World War I. It was widely produced by Oerlikon Contraves and others, with various models employed by both Allied and Axis ...
A Rh-202 installed in a Marder 1A3 turret. The Rheinmetall Mk 20 Rh-202 (short for Maschinenkanone 20 mm Rheinmetall) is a 20 mm caliber autocannon designed and produced by Rheinmetall. It fires the 20×139mm ammunition originally developed for the Hispano-Suiza HS.820 . The cannon is used on German military vehicles, including the Marder ...
T. Type 2 20 mm AA machine cannon. Type 4 20 mm twin AA machine cannon. Type 97 automatic cannon. Type 98 20 mm AA machine cannon. Type 99 cannon.
20 mm caliber is a specific size of popular autocannon ammunition. The dividing line between smaller-caliber weapons, commonly called "guns", from larger-caliber "cannons" (e.g. machine gun vs. autocannon ), is conventionally taken to be the 20 mm round, the smallest caliber of autocannon. All 20 mm cartridges have an outside projectile ...
The Italian army had two standard 20 mm anti-aircraft weapons during World War II. One was the Breda and the other was the Cannone-Mitragliera da 20/77 (Scotti) which was designed in late 1920s-early 1930s by Alfredo Scotti and produced by Isotta Fraschini for Italy as well as the Swiss Oerlikon company for foreign clients.
In January 1944, the 21st Army Group decided that only 20 mm Polsten guns would be used as a standard light anti-aircraft gun in place of the Oerlikon to simplify supply. It was used by the anti-aircraft platoons of some British infantry battalions during the Western European campaign of 1944-45. It equipped airborne units in the anti-aircraft ...
The Breda 20/65 mod.35 ( "Breda 20 mm L/65 model 1935" ), [2] [3] also simply known as 20 mm Breda [4] or Breda Model 35, [5] among other variations, [3] was an Italian 20 mm (0.787 in) anti-aircraft gun produced by the Società Italiana Ernesto Breda of Brescia company during the 1930s and early 1940s. It saw heavy usage during the Spanish ...