There were many complaints and suggestion made about Panther in various reports, and to my knowledge, a deficient high-explosive shell was never one of them. Another Panther tank captured by british forces, Cuckoo, was praised for accuracy targetting individual windows and german firing positions during the attack on castle Geijsteren in Holland. During the fighting in Courland pocket, germans used 4 Panthers as an improvised artillery and sceptical artillery observers were astonished by the range and accuracy of the 75 mm gun. That these deficiencies are largely imagined is further comfirmed by historical accounts. And since I lack sufficient information to make a good comparison between russian, german and allied HE projectile fragmentation, I am not going to attempt it. It is the fragmentation that counts for most of the damage done to infantry. However, unless there is a significant difference, explosive filler is largely arbitrary. 42 is not a bad HE projectile solely by a virtue of being used in KwK 42, you can compare it with other HE projectiles used by 75/76 mm guns of other nations. 34 for KwK 40, it has 10 grams of filler more while having the same detonator, which means that cavity has to be larger.
Regarding the "lacking" explosive filler, the HE shell for KwK 42 contains 690 grams of explosives + 35 grams in detonator. So if the qualifier for a good infantry suport gun is the ability of a gun to shoot shells at a curve, either none of these guns qualify as "good", or all of them. It has the same ballistics as ZiS-5 and F-34. ZiS-3 had 680 m/s muzzle velocity with its OF-350. People tend to criticize its "lack" of anti-infantry capability, based on high velocity which doesnt allow for a much of a ballistic curve, and HE shell that needed stronger internal structure to withstand said velocity and thus suffered in lacking filler volume.Ī supposedly "high-velocity" Kwk 42 fires its HE ammunition at 701 m/s. Most of these are born of that one post that tended to be commonly linked around the internet from the World of tanks forum, so let us discuss that.ġ. There are many misconceptions about the Panther.
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