F-34 (76 mm)
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Description
The F-34 was a 76.2 mm cannon designed by P. Muraviev of Vasiliy Grabin's design bureau at Factory No. 92 in Gorky. It was secretly implemented into the new T-34 (1941) without bureaucratic approval, but was so well-received that it would become the default 76.2 mm tank cannon for the USSR during WWII.
A variant, the ZiS-5, was made to better fit into the KV-1 series of tanks, and the F-96 was a redesignation of said ZiS-5 to be installed into field variants of the Matilda II.
Vehicles equipped with this weapon
Ground vehicles
Naval vessels
General info
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Available ammunition
Ground vehicles
Penetration statistics | |||||||
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Ammunition | Type of warhead |
Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm) | |||||
10 m | 100 m | 500 m | 1,000 m | 1,500 m | 2,000 m | ||
BR-350A (MD-5 fuse) | APHEBC | 87 | 85 | 77 | 69 | 62 | 55 |
BR-350B (MD-8 fuse) | APHEBC | 96 | 94 | 84 | 74 | 64 | 56 |
BR-350SP | APBC | 99 | 96 | 87 | 76 | 66 | 58 |
BR-354P | APCR | 125 | 117 | 87 | 60 | 41 | 28 |
BP-353A | HEAT | 80 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 80 | 80 |
OF-350M | HE | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Sh-354T | Shrapnel | 35 | 34 | 30 | 26 | 22 | 19 |
Shell details | ||||||||||||
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Ammunition | Type of warhead |
Velocity (m/s) |
Projectile mass (kg) |
Fuse delay (m) |
Fuse sensitivity (mm) |
Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (g) |
Ricochet | |||||
0% | 50% | 100% | ||||||||||
BR-350A (MD-5 fuse) | APHEBC | 662 | 6.3 | 1.2 | 14 | 150 | 48° | 63° | 71° | |||
BR-350B (MD-8 fuse) | APHEBC | 655 | 6.5 | 0.9 | 14 | 100.1 | 48° | 63° | 71° | |||
BR-350SP | APBC | 655 | 6.5 | - | - | - | 48° | 63° | 71° | |||
BR-354P | APCR | 950 | 3.02 | - | - | - | 66° | 70° | 72° | |||
BP-353A | HEAT | 355 | 3.94 | 0.05 | 0.1 | 600 | 62° | 69° | 73° | |||
OF-350M | HE | 680 | 6.2 | 0.05 | 0.1 | 621 | 79° | 80° | 81° | |||
Sh-354T | Shrapnel | 618 | 6.44 | 1.2 | 14 | 85 | 62° | 69° | 73° |
Smoke shell characteristics | ||||||
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Ammunition | Velocity (m/s) |
Projectile mass (kg) |
Screen radius (m) |
Screen deploy time (s) |
Screen hold time (s) |
Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (g) |
D-350A | 680 | 6.45 | 13 | 5 | 20 | 50 |
Naval vessels
Penetration statistics | |||||||
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Ammunition | Type of warhead |
Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm) | |||||
100 m | 1,000 m | 2,000 m | 3,000 m | 4,000 m | 5,000 m | ||
OF-350M | HE | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
BR-350A | APHEBC | 85 | 70 | 56 | 45 | 37 | 30 |
Shell details | ||||||||||||
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Ammunition | Type of warhead |
Velocity (m/s) |
Projectile mass (kg) |
Fuse delay (m) |
Fuse sensitivity (mm) |
Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (g) |
Ricochet | |||||
0% | 50% | 100% | ||||||||||
OF-350M | HE | 680 | 6.2 | 0 | 0.1 | 621 | 79° | 80° | 81° | |||
BR-350A | APHEBC | 665 | 6.3 | 1.6 | 4 | 150 | 48° | 63° | 71° |
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Usage in battles
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History
The F-34 was a cannon first developed for the T-34 medium tank. The gun was designed by P. Muraviev of Vasiliy Grabin's design bureau at Factory No. 92 in Gorky. While the F-34 was superior to the older F-32 and L-11 from the Kirov Plant in Leningrad, the L-11 was already selected for use in the T-34 because Kirov Plant was politically connected to Marshal Grigory Kulik, then-Chief of the Main Artillery Directorate. While Kulik's close ties to Stalin kept most bureaucrats from going against him, Grabin and the director of the Kharkov Locomotive Factory (KhPZ) decided to get their foot in the door by arming the T-34 (1941) with the F-34 and issuing it to platoon and company-level tank commanders. When their praise of the F-34 reached the State Defense Committee (GKO), the gun became authorized for production as the standard-issue gun on the T-34. The gun was more than capable of penetrating German tanks during World War II until the introduction of tanks such as the Panther tank and Tiger I. However, it was not as accurate as German guns and the cramped, two-man turret reduced the rate of fire to about three rounds per minute. When the newer tanks started showing up, the T-34 was first upgraded to the T-34-57 which had a ZIS-2 57 mm gun, but the lack of a good high explosive round led to the further upgrade, the T-34-85, which was armed with an adaptation of the 85 mm anti-aircraft gun M1935 (52-K) which would arm the T-34 until the end of the war.
Along with the T-34 tanks, the F-34 gun was used on the Pr.1124 and the MBK-161 gunboats. As these river boats were developed by the Red Army instead of the Soviet Navy, they were ordered to reuse existing turrets and were first armed with the turret and 76.2 mm KT-28 gun from the T-28 multi-turreted medium tank. However, shortly before World War II began these boats with T-34 turrets which lead to the adoption of the T-34 turrets and thus the cannons from the T-34 such as the F-34. On the PR.1124 and later MBK-161 boats, the turret was modified for increased elevation for providing indirect fire support.
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See also
- F-32 (76 mm) - Older cannon model by the same design bureau used on the KV-1E, BT-7A (F-32), and KV-IB (Germany)
- L-11 (76 mm) - Competing design used on early T-34s.
- ZIS-5 (76 mm) - F-34 variant used on the KV-1 (ZiS-5).
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Germany tank cannons | |
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20 mm | KwK30 · KwK38 · Rh202 |
28/20 mm | s.Pz.B.41 |
30 mm | MK 30-2/ABM |
37 mm | KwK34(t) · KwK36 · KwK38(t) · PaK L/45 |
47 mm | Pak.(t)(Sf.) |
50 mm | KwK39 · KwK L/42 · PaK38 |
57 mm | Bofors L/70 Mk.1 |
75 mm | K51 L/24 · KwK37 · KwK40 L43 · KwK40 L48 · KwK42 · KwK44 · KwK44 L/36.5 · PaK39 L48 · PaK40/3 L46 · PaK42 · StuK37 · StuK40 L43 · StuK40 L48 |
76 mm | PaK36 (r) |
88 mm | Flak.37 · Flak 41 · KwK36 · KwK43 · PaK43 |
90 mm | BK90 |
105 mm | CN105-57 · FMK.4 Modelo 1L · K.18 · KwK L/68 · L7A3 · PzK M57 · StuH42 |
120 mm | Rh120 L/44 · Rh120 L/55 · Rh120 L/55 A1 |
128 mm | K.40 · KwK44 · PaK44 |
150 mm | s.I.G.33 · Stu.H 43 L/12 |
380 mm | RW61 |
Foreign: | |
30 mm | Bushmaster 2 Mk.44 (USA) · HSS 831L (Britain) |
57 mm | 6pdr OQF Mk.V (Britain) |
73 mm | 2A28 (USSR) |
75 mm | M3 (USA) |
76 mm | F-32 (USSR) · F-34 (USSR) · M32 (USA) |
90 mm | M36 (USA) · M41 (USA) |
105 mm | GT-3 (South Africa) |
125 mm | 2A46 (USSR) |
152 mm | M-10T (USSR) · XM150E5 (USA) |
155 mm | M126 (USA) |
USSR tank cannons | |
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20 mm | TNSh |
30 mm | 2A42 · 2A72 · AG-30 |
45 mm | 20-K |
57 mm | AU-220 · Ch-51M · ZIS-2 · ZIS-4 · ZIS-4M |
73 mm | 2A28 |
76 mm | 1902/30 · 3-K · D-56TS · F-32 · F-34 · F-96 · KT-28 · L-10 · L-11 · ZIS-3 · ZIS-5 |
85 mm | D-5S · D-5T · D-58 · D-70 · F-30 · ZIS-S-53 |
100 mm | 2A48 · 2A70 · D-10S · D-10T · D-10T2S · D-50 · LB-1 · S-34 |
107 mm | ZIS-6 |
115 mm | U-5TS |
122 mm | A-19 · D-25-44T · D-25S · D-25T · D-25TS · D-30T · D-49 · M-30 · M-62-T2S |
125 mm | 2A26 · 2A46 · 2A46M · 2A46M-1 · 2A46M-4 · 2A46M-5 · 2A46MS · 2A75 · D-126 |
130 mm | B-13 · C-70 · M-65 |
152 mm | 2A33 · LP-83 · M-10T · M-64 · M-69 · ML-20S |
Foreign: | |
37 mm | M5 (USA) |
50 mm | KwK L/42 (Germany) |
57 mm | 6pdr OQF Mk.III (Britain) · M1 (USA) |
75 mm | KwK42 (Germany) · M2 (USA) |
76 mm | M1 (USA) |
85 mm | Type-62-85-TC (China) |
China tank cannons | |
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30 mm | ZPL02 · ZPZ02 |
73 mm | Type 86 |
76 mm | M32K1 |
85 mm | Type 56 · Type 63 |
100 mm | PTP86 · Type 59 · Type 69 · Type 69-II · ZPL04 |
105 mm | 88B-105T · Type 83 · WMA301 · ZPL94 · ZPL98A |
120 mm | 122TM · PTZ89 |
125 mm | Type 88C · Type 99A · ZPT98 |
130 mm | PL59A Gai |
152 mm | PL66 Gai |
Foreign: | |
20 mm | KwK30 (Germany) |
37 mm | M6 (USA) |
45 mm | 20-K (USSR) |
47 mm | Type 1 (Japan) |
57 mm | Type 97 (Japan) · ZIS-2 (USSR) |
75 mm | M2 Howitzer (USA) · M3 (USA) · M6 (USA) |
76 mm | D-56T (USSR) · F-34 (USSR) · M1 (USA) · M7 (USA) · ZIS-3 (USSR) |
85 mm | ZIS-S-53 (USSR) |
90 mm | M3 (USA) · M41 (USA) |
100 mm | D-10S (USSR) |
105 mm | M68 (USA) · M68A1 (USA) |
115 mm | U-5TS (USSR) |
122 mm | A-19 (USSR) · D-25T (USSR) |
152 mm | ML-20S (USSR) |
Sweden tank cannons | |
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20 mm | Akan m/47D · Pvlvkan m/40 |
37 mm | kan m/38 |
40 mm | akan m/70B |
57 mm | Pvkan m/43 |
75 mm | kan m/02 · kan m/41 · kan Strv 74 · lvkan m/37 A · pvkan m/43 |
84 mm | kan Strv 81 |
90 mm | kan Ikv 91 |
105 mm | kan Bofors · kan Ikv · kan m/44 · kan Strv 101 · L74 |
120 mm | automatkanon · CTG · kan Strv 121 · kan Strv 122 |
150 mm | fsthaub m/02 |
155 mm | kan m/60 |
Foreign: | |
35 mm | Bushmaster 3 (USA) |
73 mm | 2A28 (USSR) |
75 mm | M3 (USA) |
88 mm | KwK43 (Germany) |
105 mm | L/50 (Belgium) · L7A3 (Germany) |
125 mm | 2A46M-1 (USSR) |
155 mm | CN98 (South Korea) |
Finland | |
37 mm | Psv.K/36 |
114 mm | Psv.H/18 |
Foreign: | |
30 mm | Bushmaster 2 Mk.44 (USA) |
45 mm | 20-K (USSR) |
75 mm | KwK40 L48 (Germany) |
76 mm | D-56TS (USSR) · F-34 (USSR) · L-10 (USSR) |
77 mm | OQF Mk.II (Britain) |
84 mm | 20pdr OQF Mk.I (Britain) |
85 mm | ZIS-S-53 (USSR) |
100 mm | D-10T (USSR) · D-10T2S (USSR) |
105 mm | L/50 (Belgium) |
120 mm | Rh120 L/44 (Germany) · Rh120 L/55 (Germany) |
125 mm | 2A46 (USSR) |