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== Description ==
 
== Description ==
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The '''L-11 (76 mm)''' is a Soviet tank gun found on early Soviet tanks.
  
 
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'''Pros:'''
 
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* Huge 150 g of explosive mass in the '''BR-350A (MD-5 fuse)''' shell, will one-shot if it penetrates the enemies' armour
 
* Huge 150 g of explosive mass in the '''BR-350A (MD-5 fuse)''' shell, will one-shot if it penetrates the enemies' armour
 
* Medium-high shell velocity
 
* Medium-high shell velocity
  
 
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* Struggles to penetrate heavily armoured targets
 
* Struggles to penetrate heavily armoured targets
 
* APBC round only has 92 mm of penetration at point-blank range
 
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== History ==
 
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The L-11 was designed in 1938 by IA Makhanov of the SKB-4 design bureau at the Kirov Plant in Leningrad. It is rumored that the L-11's design was based off that of the 76 mm air-defense gun M1914/15, however this is unconfirmed. Although inferior to many other tank guns that were available or being developed at the time, mainly the [[F-34 (76 mm)|F-34]], bureaucracy led to the earliest models of the T-34 and KV-1 being fitted with the L-11 instead. Tests however showed that the L-11 lacked the necessary power required to defeat foreign tanks, thus the L-11 became a stopgap solution until better guns for the two tanks could be produced. This came in the form of the F-34 for the T-34 and the [[F-32 (76 mm)|F-32]] for the KV-1, which began replacing the L-11 on production lines during 1941, finally providing the the two tanks with the necessary firepower required to defeat foreign tanks, although the F-32 was itself later replaced with a [[ZIS-5 (76 mm)|modified F-34]] due to it only having marginally better performance.
  
 
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== See also ==
 
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* ''reference to the article about the variant of the cannon/machine gun;''
 
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[[Category:Tank cannons]]
 
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Revision as of 18:11, 21 April 2022

Description

The L-11 (76 mm) is a Soviet tank gun found on early Soviet tanks.

Vehicles equipped with this weapon

General info

Tell us about the tactical and technical characteristics of the cannon or machine gun.

Available ammunition

Penetration statistics
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 fuze) APHEBC 78 76 69 61 53 47
BR-350SP APBC 93 91 83 74 66 58
OF-350M HE 10 10 10 10 10 10
Sh-354T Shrapnel 37 35 29 25 20 17
Shell details
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 fuze) APHEBC 615 6.3 1.2 14.0 150 48° 63° 71°
BR-350SP APBC 615 6.78 N/A N/A N/A 48° 63° 71°
OF-350M HE 615 6.2 0.05 0.1 621 79° 80° 81°
Sh-354T Shrapnel 615 6.2 0.5 8.0 85 62° 69° 73°

Comparison with analogues

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Usage in battles

The L-11 (76 mm) is more suitable for close to medium range combat. The penetration rate is lacking, however, the explosive mass in the BR-350A (MD-5 fuse) shell will make short work of any tank it penetrates.

Pros and cons

Pros:

  • Huge 150 g of explosive mass in the BR-350A (MD-5 fuse) shell, will one-shot if it penetrates the enemies' armour
  • Medium-high shell velocity

Cons:

  • Struggles to penetrate heavily armoured targets
  • APBC round only has 92 mm of penetration at point-blank range
  • Quite long reload rate for its calibre

History

The L-11 was designed in 1938 by IA Makhanov of the SKB-4 design bureau at the Kirov Plant in Leningrad. It is rumored that the L-11's design was based off that of the 76 mm air-defense gun M1914/15, however this is unconfirmed. Although inferior to many other tank guns that were available or being developed at the time, mainly the F-34, bureaucracy led to the earliest models of the T-34 and KV-1 being fitted with the L-11 instead. Tests however showed that the L-11 lacked the necessary power required to defeat foreign tanks, thus the L-11 became a stopgap solution until better guns for the two tanks could be produced. This came in the form of the F-34 for the T-34 and the F-32 for the KV-1, which began replacing the L-11 on production lines during 1941, finally providing the the two tanks with the necessary firepower required to defeat foreign tanks, although the F-32 was itself later replaced with a modified F-34 due to it only having marginally better performance.

Media

An excellent addition to the article would be a video guide, as well as screenshots from the game and photos.

See also

Links to the articles on the War Thunder Wiki that you think will be useful for the reader, for example:

  • reference to the article about the variant of the cannon/machine gun;
  • references to approximate analogues by other nations and research trees.

External links


USSR tank cannons
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-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)

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