The 76 mm regimental gun M1927 () was a

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infantry support gun Infantry support guns or battalion guns are artillery weapons designed and used to increase the firepower of the infantry units they are intrinsic to, offering immediate tactical response to the needs of the unit's commanding officer. They typica ...

. The gun was developed in 1927 by the design bureau of Orudiyno-Arsenalny Trest (OAT) and entered production in 1928. A total of 18,116 pieces were built. On June 22, 1941, the Red Army had 4,708 of these guns. In 1943 the gun was replaced in production by the

76 mm regimental gun M1943 The 76-mm regimental gun M1943 (OB-25) (Russian: 76-мм полковая пушка обр. 1943 г. (ОБ-25)) was a Soviet infantry support gun developed in 1943 by M. Yu. Tsiryulnikov at the ordnance plant in Motovilikha. The gun used a moder ...

, but remained in service until the end of the war. The Germans placed captured guns into service as the 7.62 cm Infanteriekanonenhaubitze 290(r) (infantry gun-

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), while in the Finnish army they were known as 76 RK/27. The gun was intended for destruction of light field fortifications and openly placed personnel by direct fire similarly to how 7.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz L/27 with similar weight and ballistics was used by German troops in WWI. HEAT shell gave it limited anti-tank capabilities. It was chambered for the same shell size as 76.2mm divisional guns, but with a reduced propellant charge. Since firing higher-power divisional gun ammunition could damage the gun, the shell flange was modified so that divisional gun ammunition couldn't be loaded into the chamber of the regimental gun. The M1927 was issued to rifle and cavalry

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s of the Red Army. Artillery

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of rifle

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included one battery of M1927. Some guns were used by anti-tank artillery battalions.

Ammunition

*Ammunition types: **Fragmentation- HE: OF-350. **Fragmentation: O-350A. **

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: BP-350M. *Projectile weight: **OF-350: *Muzzle velocity: **OF-350, O-350A: **BP-350M: *Effective range: **OF-350, O-350A: **BP-350M:

76 mm regimental gun M1943

The M1943 used a modernized barrel from the 76 mm regimental gun M1927 and the split-trail carriage from the 45 mm anti-tank gun M1942 (M-42).

Self-Propelled Guns

* SU-12 - The M1927 was mounted on a shielded pedestal mount on a modified

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truck, and was in production from 1933 to 1935. * SU-26 - The M1927 was mounted on a pedestal mount with a triangular shield on the chassis of the

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tank.

Tank Guns

A variant of the M1927 with recoil length reduced from to was designated the ''76 mm tank gun model 1927/32 (KT-28)''. The 76 mm KT was installed in these Soviet tanks: * BT-7A - The 76 mm KT was installed in a new turret on the chassis of the BT-7. * T-26-4 - The 76 mm KT was installed in a new turret on the chassis of the T-26 . *

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- The primary turret of early versions of the T-28 was armed with a 76 mm KT. *

T-35 The T-35 was a Soviet multi- turreted heavy tank of the interwar period and early Second World War that saw limited service with the Red Army. Often called a land battleship, it was the only five-turreted heavy tank in the world to reach product ...

- The primary turret was armed with a 76 mm KT.

Bunker guns

The Soviets had also developed version of this gun for bunkers, the Finns called it 76 K/27-k. Finnish Army captured 13 bunker-version guns and reinstalled them to Finnish bunkers. Eight of those guns were lost in summer of 1944.

Gallery

File:76 mm M1943 MWP 03.jpg, A M1943 at the

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in Warsaw. File:САУ СУ-12.jpg, A SU-12 after maneuvers. Kiev Military District, 45th Mechanized Corps. Autumn 1933. File:СУ-26 в Музее отечественной военной истории.jpg, A SU-26 in the Museum of Russian Military History. File:BT-7A (10).jpg, A BT-7A which is currently at

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near Moscow. File:T-26 tank with A-43 turret.jpg, An early T-26 tank with A-43 turret. File:Parad v Orle 1930.jpg, T-28 tanks in a military parade in Orel in the late 1930s. File:T-35 model 1935.jpg, A captured T-35. File:Bunker gun 76K27K p1.jpg, Side view of the 76 K/27-k File:Bunker gun 76K27K p2.jpg, Front view of the 76 K/27-k

References

External links

* Chamberlain, Peter & Gander, Terry. ''Infantry, Mountain and Airborne Guns''. New York: Arco, 1975 * Gander, Terry and Chamberlain, Peter. ''Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945''. New York: Doubleday, 1979 * Ivanov A. - ''Artillery of the USSR in Second World War'' - SPb Neva, 2003 (Иванов А. Артиллерия СССР во Второй Мировой войне. — СПб., Издательский дом Нева, 2003., ) * Shunkov V. N. - ''The Weapons of the Red Army'', Mn. Harvest, 1999 (Шунков В. Н. - ''Оружие Красной Армии.'' — Мн.: Харвест, 1999.)
76.2-mm Regimental gun model 1927 on the BattleField.Ru
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