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Landsverk L-62
''Landsverk'' L-62, also known as ''Landsverk Anti'' II or a combination of both, ''Landsverk L-62 Anti II'', was a Swedish Self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon, self-propelled anti-aircraft gun construction that was specifically designed for Finland by AB Landsverk, Landsverk between 1941 and 1942. Construction The vehicle was an improved 40M Nimród, Landsverk L-62 Anti I where the turret and chassis had been improved for better protection. The chassis was based on the Landsverk L-60 tank but was lengthened with one extra roadwheel per side. The turret was circular and open for a better view against planes. The gun was a Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60, 40 mm Bofors L/60 anti-air gun which was already in service with the Finnish military as the 40 ItK/38. Operational history In Finnish service the vehicle got the designation ItPsv 41, full name ''Ilmatorjuntapanssarivaunu'' 41, meaning Anti-aircraft Tank 41. Finland bought six tanks in 1942. During the battles in the summer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuusula
Tuusula (; ) is a municipality in Finland, located in the southern interior of the country. Tuusula is situated in the centre of the Uusimaa region. The population of Tuusula is approximately . It is the most populous Municipalities of Finland, municipality in Finland and the second most populous municipality without city status () after Nurmijärvi. Tuusula is part of the Helsinki metropolitan area, which has approximately million inhabitants. A Laurus nobilis, laurel branch in the coat of arms of Tuusula refers to the local artist community and a wheellock was borrowed from the coat of arms of the Stålhane noble family, which has long been influential in Tuusula. The coat of arms was designed by Olof Eriksson in 1953. Geography Tuusula, lying on the shores of Tuusulanjärvi lake, is located in the provinces of Finland, province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa (region), Uusimaa regions of Finland, region. It covers an area of of which is water. The po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self-propelled Anti-aircraft Gun
An anti-aircraft vehicle, also known as a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) or self-propelled air defense system (SPAD), is a mobile vehicle with a dedicated anti-aircraft capability. Specific weapon systems used include machine guns, autocannons, larger guns, or surface-to-air missiles, and some mount both guns and longer-ranged missiles (e.g. the Pantsir missile system). Platforms used include both trucks and heavier combat vehicles such as armoured personnel carriers and tanks, which add protection from aircraft, artillery, and small arms fire for front line deployment. Anti-aircraft guns are usually mounted in a quickly-traversing turret with a high rate of elevation, for tracking fast-moving aircraft. They are often in dual or quadruple mounts, allowing a high rate of fire. In addition, most anti-aircraft guns can be used in a direct-fire role against surface targets to great effect. Today, surface-to-air missiles (generally mounted on similar turrets) have largel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Continuation War
The Continuation War, also known as the Second Soviet–Finnish War, was a conflict fought by Finland and Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union during World War II. It began with a Finnish declaration of war on 25 June 1941 and ended on 19 September 1944 with the Moscow Armistice. The Soviet Union and Finland had previously fought the Winter War from 1939 to 1940, which ended with the Soviet failure to conquer Finland and the Moscow Peace Treaty. Numerous reasons have been proposed for the Finnish decision to invade, with regaining territory lost during the Winter War regarded as the most common. Other justifications for the conflict include Finnish President Risto Ryti's vision of a Greater Finland and Commander-in-Chief Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim's desire to annex East Karelia. The following paragraph contains a bundle of cites for the Finnish participation in the siege of Leningrad, which is a commonly debated complex issue in the article (see talk).--> On 22 June 1941 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the world's countries participated, with many nations mobilising all resources in pursuit of total war. Tanks in World War II, Tanks and Air warfare of World War II, aircraft played major roles, enabling the strategic bombing of cities and delivery of the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, first and only nuclear weapons ever used in war. World War II is the List of wars by death toll, deadliest conflict in history, causing World War II casualties, the death of 70 to 85 million people, more than half of whom were civilians. Millions died in genocides, including the Holocaust, and by massacres, starvation, and disease. After the Allied victory, Allied-occupied Germany, Germany, Allied-occupied Austria, Austria, Occupation of Japan, Japan, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AB Landsverk
AB Landsverk (full name: Aktiebolaget Landsverk, ) was a Swedish heavy industry company, manufacturing a wide variety of tracked and wheeled military vehicles, such as tractor units, off-road vehicles and armored car (military), armoured vehicles, etc, most notably the world's first welded tank constructions, among others, but also a wide variety of civilian heavy equipment, such as railroad cars, harbour crane (machine), cranes and agricultural machinery. It was founded in 1872 as ''Firman Petterson & Ohlsen''. It was located in Landskrona, Sweden. Early days In late 1920, the company found itself on the verge of bankruptcy. Through a German company, the ''Gutehoffnungshütte Aktienverein für Bergbau und Hüttenbereich Oberhausen'' (GHH), invested heavily and gained control of 50 % of the shares. In 1923, the company manufactured a small number of tracked agricultural tractors based on an American design. The Germans increased their ownership to 61% in 1925 and three years la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bofors 40 Mm Automatic Gun L/60
The Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60 (often referred to simply as the "Bofors 40 mm gun", the "Bofors gun" and the like, see #Name, name) is an Anti-aircraft warfare, anti-aircraft autocannon, designed in the 1930s by the Swedish arms manufacturer AB Bofors. The gun was designed as an intermediate anti-aircraft gun, filling the gap between fast firing close-range small calibre anti-aircraft guns and slower firing long-range high calibre anti-aircraft guns. For its time, the Bofors 40 mm L/60 was perfectly suited for this role and outperformed competing designs in the years leading up to World War II in both effectiveness and reliability. It entered the export market around 1932 and was in service with 18 countries by 1939. Throughout World War II it became one of the most popular and widespread medium-weight anti-aircraft guns. It was used by the majority of the western Allies of World War II, Allies and some Axis powers such as Nazi Germany and Hungary. In the po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self-propelled Anti-aircraft Weapon
An anti-aircraft vehicle, also known as a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) or self-propelled air defense system (SPAD), is a mobile vehicle with a dedicated anti-aircraft warfare, anti-aircraft capability. Specific weapon systems used include machine guns, autocannons, larger guns, or surface-to-air missiles, and some mount both guns and longer-ranged missiles (e.g. the Pantsir missile system). Platforms used include both trucks and heavier combat vehicles such as armoured personnel carriers and tanks, which add protection from aircraft, artillery, and small arms fire for front line deployment. Anti-aircraft guns are usually mounted in a quickly-traversing gun turret, turret with a high rate of elevation, for tracking fast-moving aircraft. They are often in dual or quadruple mounts, allowing a high rate of fire. In addition, most anti-aircraft guns can be used in a direct-fire role against surface targets to great effect. Today, surface-to-air missiles (generally mounte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
40M Nimród
The 40M Nimród was a World War II Hungarian self-propelled anti-aircraft gun based on a license-built copy of the Swedish Landsverk L-62 Anti I SPAAG but with a new turret, and developed independently. Originally, it was intended to be used both in the anti-aircraft and tank destroyer roles, but it proved to be ineffective against heavily armored Soviet tanks like the KV-1. Therefore, it was primarily used against lightly armored vehicles and for air defense. Design The 40M Nimród was a modified, license-built variant of the Landsverk L-62 Anti I SPAAG. The L-62 Anti I was based on the chassis of the Landsverk L-60 tank – the same tank that the Hungarian Toldi light tanks were also based on. The L-62 did differ though from the original L-60 chassis. It was longer and wider and had one more roadwheel per side. The 40M Nimród also differed from the original L-62 Anti I design. While the chassis was basically the same as the L-62 Anti I, although utilizing parts fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landsverk L-60
The Landsverk L-60 was a Swedish tank developed in 1934. It was developed by AB Landsverk as a light tank which included several advanced design features such as torsion bar suspension, periscopes rather than view slits and all-welded construction. The L-60 was progressively improved with several turrets, engines and guns offered by Landsverk. The L-60 entered the international market in 1935 and was eventually adopted by the Swedish army in 4 main variants: Stridsvagn (Strv) m/38, Stridsvagn m/39, Stridsvagn m/40L and Stridsvagn m/40K. Variants * L-60 - First variant produced and delivered to: ** - 2 ordered in 1935 * L-60 Ö (for Österreich "Austria") - Variant for the Austrian Army and delivered to: ** - 1 prototype ordered in 1936. Similar to the regular L-60 with a 20 mm madsen in the turret but with a raised idler-wheel. Not accepted for service. ** - received L-60 Ö repurposed and delivered to Hungary together with a Landsverk L-62. The idler-wheel was modified back ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
L-62-Landsverk-Anti-II-backside
L6 may refer to: * L6, a variety of low-alloy special purpose steel * Mauritania Airlines International (IATA code: L6, ICAO code: MAI) * Straight-6 engine * L6, Bell Telephone Laboratories' Low-Level Linked List Language * L6, instance of mathematical Lp space * L 6 (keelboat), class of sailboat * ISO/IEC 8859-10 (Latin-6), an 8-bit character encoding * Lower sixth (grade 12) in British secondary education * L6, an S-Bahn line of the Léman Express in Switzerland and France Products by model number * Gibson L6-S guitar * Motorola SLVR L6 phone * PRR L6 locomotives * L6 Wombat firearm * Li L6 electric SUV Aircraft: * Daimler D.I fighter * Interstate Cadet L-6A light passenger plane * Lucas L6 The Lucas L6 is a French all-metal monoplane design for homebuilding by Emile Lucas. Design and development The Lucas L6 is a tandem two-seat all-metal low-wing cantilever monoplane with a retractable tricycle landing gear. Two variants were ..., French light aircraft See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landsverk Vehicles
AB Landsverk (full name: Aktiebolaget Landsverk, ) was a Swedish heavy industry company, manufacturing a wide variety of tracked and wheeled military vehicles, such as tractor units, off-road vehicles and armoured vehicles, etc, most notably the world's first welded tank constructions, among others, but also a wide variety of civilian heavy equipment, such as railroad cars, harbour cranes and agricultural machinery. It was founded in 1872 as ''Firman Petterson & Ohlsen''. It was located in Landskrona, Sweden. Early days In late 1920, the company found itself on the verge of bankruptcy. Through a German company, the '' Gutehoffnungshütte Aktienverein für Bergbau und Hüttenbereich Oberhausen'' (GHH), invested heavily and gained control of 50 % of the shares. In 1923, the company manufactured a small number of tracked agricultural tractors based on an American design. The Germans increased their ownership to 61% in 1925 and three years later the name was changed to ''AB Landsv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
