152 mm/57 B-38 (152 mm)

Description

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Vehicles equipped with this weapon

• Chapayev
• Kronshtadt
• Mikhail Kutuzov
• Shcherbakov
• Sverdlov
• Zheleznyakov

General info

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Available ammunition

Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
		1,000 m	2,500 m	5,000 m	7,500 m	10,000 m	15,000 m
152 mm OF-35 HE	HE	50	50	50	50	50	50
152 mm B-35 AP	APCBC	333	287	226	178	143	100
152 mm PB-35 SAP	SAPBC	172	148	117	92	74	52
152 mm ZS-35 AA	HE-TF	62	62	62	62	62	62

Shell details
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Velocity (m/s)	Projectile mass (kg)	Fuse delay (s)	Fuse sensitivity (mm)	Explosive mass (TNT equivalent) (kg)	Ricochet
							0%	50%	100%
152 mm OF-35 HE	HE	950	55	0	0.1	6	79°	80°	81°
152 mm B-35 AP	APCBC	950	55	0.03	7	1.69	48°	63°	71°
152 mm PB-35 SAP	SAPBC	950	55	0.03	7	5.9	48°	63°	71°
152 mm ZS-35 AA	HE-TF	950	54.23	0	0.1	10.1	79°	80°	81°

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Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

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History

The 152 mm/57 (6") B-38 Pattern 1938 was originally intended for use on the Soviet Battleships planned in the late 1930s. However, as those ships were cancelled during World War II, it did not enter service until 1949 as the main gun on the cruiser Chapayev. As a cruiser gun, this was a good, if not outstanding weapon.

The guns were designed by "Bolshevik" factory in 1938. The first gun was completed in 1940 and by 1941 a total of 10 were on hand. During World War II one gun was used for testing and the rest as railroad guns by installing them on cradles normally used for 8"/45 (20.3 cm) guns.

There were four different types of turrets designed for this gun. MK-4 was the twin turret designed for the Sovetsky Soyuz battleships, while MK-17 was the lighter version of the same turret designed for the Kronshtadt battlecruiser class. The MK-5 was a triple turret designed for the Chapayev and Sverdlov light cruiser classes and the MK-9 was a lighter counterpart designed for the modified Sovetsky Soyuz class battleships.

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USSR naval cannons
20 mm	ShVAK
25 mm	2M-3
30 mm	AK-230 · 30 mm/54 AK-630 · 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
	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)