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JiriTintera · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:51 pm Post subject: Skoda type SV4 in Aberdeen ?

Dear Sirs,
I am looking for information about German anti-tank cannon - prototype: 5cm Pak 2.06/835 (Skoda type SV4). The weapon was exhibited in 1976 in Aberdeen.

Where is he now?

Neil_Baumgardner · Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 1:04 am Post subject: Re: Skoda type SV4 in Aberdeen ?

Here it was just a couple of years ago at Aberdeen Proving Ground. Not completely sure where it is now... It may be in storage at APG - it was (at least initially) not destined for the new Ordnance Museum at Fort Lee (and I dont remember seeing it in the storage area there either). But another museum, like the Field Artillery Museum at Fort Sill, could have also easily claimed it...

Neil

JiriTintera · Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 10:19 pm Post subject: Re: Skoda type SV4 in Aberdeen ?

Neil,
thanks for the photo and information. I attach essential technical data of this weapon.

5 cm anti-tank cannon with automatic charging, factory code: Skoda A13, or SV4

Technical data taken from a factory brochure No. 4498, issued: September 19, 1945.

Calibre: 50 mm
Weight in firing position: 1300 kg (2863.4 lb)
Weight along the way: 1350 kg (2973.6 lb)
Barrel length: 3010 mm (9 ft, 10.5 in), L/60
Firing height: 920 mm (3 ft, 0.22 in)
Recoil: 550 mm (1 ft, 9.65 in)
Elevation: -12° to +20°
Delivery: 65°

Shield of armour plate thickness: 2x 4.5 mm (2x 0.177 in)
Wheel track: 1520 mm (4 ft, 11.84 in)
Tyres: 6.50-20

Bullet weight: 2.06 kg (4.537 lb)
Muzzle velocity 835 m/sec. (2739.5 ft per sec.)
Muzzle energy: 7355 J (75 mt)
Rate of fire: 80 to 100 rounds per minute

P. S.
Skoda A15 - tank gun, had the same caliber and automatic charging.