Mauser BK27 (27 mm)

Description

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Vehicles equipped with this weapon

• Tornado GR.1
• Tornado F.3
• ▄Tornado IDS (1995)
• ◄Tornado IDS MFG
• ◄Tornado IDS ASSTA1

General info

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Available ammunition

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Usage in battles

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History

In the late 1960s, the British, West Germans, and Italians collaborated on the Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA) program to create a jet that would serve as their needed counter to the Soviets MiG-25 “Foxbat” and Su-15 “Flagon”. The result was the Panavia Tornado, and the aircraft needed a cannon. Mauser stepped up to the plate and created the Mauser BK27 (Bordkanone “on-board canon”). Mauser’s creation of this weapon is not a surprise as the first modern revolver cannon was also developed by Mauser. The MK 213 was developed during World War II, but it never saw combat. After the war, Mauser was disbanded (it was re-established in the 1950s due to the need to supply the recently formed Bundeswehr of West Germany) and the designers soon left for greener pastures in the US, UK, France, and Switzerland and took the designs with them. From this designer exodus, the M39, ADEN, DEFA, and Oerlikon KCA cannons were born.

The BK 27 fires a 27x145 mm cartridge developed by Mauser and is a gas-operated action. Along with the Panavia Tornado, the BK 27 was also mounted on other European aircraft. These aircraft include two additional international joint venture aircraft. The French-West German Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet uses the BK 27 as does the Swedish SAAB JAS 39 Grippen and the Eurofighter Typhoon. Typhoon notably uses a linkless feed system for the BK 27 to improve reliability. It is also the basis for remote-controlled weapons stations used by the Deutsche Marine (German Navy). 

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Britain aircraft cannons
20 mm	Hispano Mk.I · Hispano Mk.II · Hispano Mk.V · Oerlikon KAD-B
25 mm	ADEN 25
30 mm	ADEN · ADEN Mk.4
40 mm	Rolls-Royce Type BH · Vickers S
47 mm	Vickers P
57 mm	Molins Class M
	Foreign:
20 mm	GI2 (South Africa) · Hispano 404 (France) · M61A1 (USA)
27 mm	Akan m/85 (Sweden) · Mauser BK27 (Germany)
30 mm	M230E-1 (USA)