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Labelled as a "captured rocket gun"
theirishinamerica.com/...-soldiers/
Doesn't look very much like a rocket launcher to me, more like an elderly coastal defence piece that's been given wheels.

It is a gun carriage German 21 cm cannon K 39/40. Missing Barrel was transported to a separate vehicle. In 1941 factory Škoda produced 20 weapons of this type.
Jan

It's clearly not the complete gun. The barrel was on a separated load.

I have to double check (I am away from home) but maybe a 21 cm K 39/40 is in Sinsheim

Massimo

Dear Colleagues,
One piece is exhibited in Sweden: Beredskapsmuseet, Djuramossa.

Swedish Army designation: 21 cm kanon m/42

Situation after reconstruction in 2005


It is now located in a roofed hall

Marvelous!
Doesn't look as if it was designed for mobility.

Swedish website Kustartilleriet states:

"Transport
Pjäsen delades tre enheter vid and transportation. Underlavett (Baddi) (14 tonnes), överlavett (16 tonnes) samt eldrör (17 tonnes). Ursprungligen drogs enheterna and dragterrängbil m/42, Avena kallad TVC och från 1948 and dragterrängbil 954 Brockway. "

For transport was divided into three units:
- gun-barrel on trailer (17 ton)
- gun-carriage on trailer (16 ton)
- firing platform on trailer (14 ton)

By 1948, used artillery tractors m/42, after Brockway type 954.

Artillery trailers has not been preserved.

Source
kustartilleriet.gearhe...2_gun.html

Skoda 21 cm cannon V was developed in the late thirties to Turkey, which was finally delivered. It was produced in total in five versions: V, VX,V1, V2, V3. Wehrmacht was delivered a total of 58 pieces, most in the V2 version. 9 pieces of type V2 Sweden received. In the Soviet Union was made under license nine cannons VX, marked here Br - 17. All version guns transported in three units: gun barrel, gun carriage and firing platform.




Muzle velocity m/sec Weight in action kg Maximum range m Weight gun barrel trailer Weight gun carriage trailer Weight fir. platform trailer
Source: Dr Vladimír Kupka/ Vladimír Francev - Kanony rady V - Strelecká revue 8/2008
SOA Plzen

Swedish artillery tractors for the 21 cm kanon m/42

Dragterrängbil m/42 953B - 6x6, Volvo's product, the model TVC



Dragterrängbil 954 - 6x6, a product of Brockway, model B666



Source
kustartilleriet.gearhe.../cars.html
steo.se/military/brock...il_963.htm
www.indiandefence.com/...dex12.html

This 21 cm gun is in Sinsheim, what model is it?

Massimo

Dear colleague,
weapon on display in the museum is not complete. Missing parts Replaced with dummy barrel & breech. Determine the type of weapon with Extremely Difficult, perhaps only to the manufacturing label. That Francev colleague says this is a prototype of the Skoda V2 (K39/41). Photographs from 2005-2007 Sinsheim have the figures "M40" (Skoda V1, K39/40).

There is another one in Sinsheim. Again, dummy breech and gun tube. The Museum says it's a 21 cm Skoda M40.
I don't even trust them on the caliber, it could be 24 cm instead... I would love to hear any feedback on it.

Massimo

Dear Colleague,
older replica gun barrel was very thin! Perhaps was made from a lamppost. The current replica gun barrel follows the original dimensions. The chassis construction is not a school Skoda. Surely it is a kind of folk creativity of Sinsheim.

21 cm V1( 39/40)
I believe that photography could be a gun carriage V3. Two guns deployed in 1945 in Alsace. The details vary from carriages V1 and V2.

21 cm V2 ( 39/41)

Thanks for the info!

Massimo