305 mm/54 B-50 (305 mm)

Description

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• Kronshtadt

General info

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Available ammunition

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Usage in battles

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History

The B-50 is a gun that was designed but never actually got off the drawing board, as was also the case for the ship meant to use the guns, the Kronshtadt. The gun was based on the B-36, another unfinished design for the Project 25 battleships that were originally intended to use 10-inch guns. The Kronshtadt class was intended primarily to counter the new wave of heavy and light cruisers built under the specifications of the Washington and London Naval Treaties along with Germany's "pocket battleships". The requirements were later revised to make a battlecruiser that could counter the French Dunkerque, Japanese Kongo-class battlecruisers, and the German Scharnhorst-class battleships. The design for the B-50 would have featured an extremely high muzzle velocity and equally long range at the cost of the liner life. Work on the design began in 1938, but the guns fell behind schedule and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1940 led to Stalin making a trade agreement for the 38 cm guns of the Bismarck-class battleships from Germany to arm the Kronshtadt. However, work on the program was terminated when Operation Barbarossa occurred in June 1941.

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USSR naval cannons
20 mm	ShVAK
25 mm	2M-3
30 mm	AK-230 · 30 mm/54 AK-630 · 30 mm/54 AK-630M · BP "Plamya"
37 mm	37 mm/67 70-K · V-11
45 mm	45 mm/46 21-K · 45 mm/68 21-KM · 45 mm/89 SM-20-ZIF · 45 mm/89 SM-21-ZIF
57 mm	AK-725
75 mm	75 mm/50 Canet patt.1892
76 mm	34-K · 39-K · 76 mm/60 AK-176M · AK-726 · D-56TS · F-34 · Lender AA gun, pattern 1914/15
85 mm	85 mm/52 92-K · 85 mm/54.6 ZIS-C-53 · 90-K
100 mm	100 mm/56 B-34 · 100 mm/70 SM-5-1 · Minizini
102 mm	Pattern 1911
120 mm	120 mm/50 pattern 1905
130 mm	130 mm/55 pattern 1913 · 130 mm/58 SM-2-1 · B-13
152 mm	152 mm/57 B-38
180 mm	180 mm/57 B-1-P · 180 mm/60 B-1-K
305 mm	12-inch/52 pattern 1907 · 305 mm/54 B-50
356 mm	14-inch/52 pattern 1913 (356 mm)
	Foreign:
40 mm	2pdr QF Mk.IIc (Britain) · Skoda (Czechoslovakia)
47 mm	3 pdr QF Hotchkiss (Britain)
76 mm	76 mm/40 Ansaldo mod.1917 (Italy)
88 mm	SK C/30 (Germany)
120 mm	120 mm/50 Mk.4 Bofors M1924 (Sweden) · 120 mm/50 O.T.O. Mod.1933 (Italy)
152 mm	152/53 mm O.T.O. Mod.1929 (Italy)
320 mm	320 mm/44 Ansaldo model 1934 (Italy)