Pak40 - Walkaround - Meyerode.
The 7.5 cm Pak 40 was developed in 1939–1941 by Rheinmetall after reports of new Soviet tank designs.
The 5 cm Pak 38 was still in testing at this point, but it appeared it would not be powerful enough
to deal with these newer designs.
However, while the Pak 38 made extensive use of light alloys to reduce overall gun weight.
As a result, the Pak 40 used steel throughout its construction and was proportionally heavier than the 5 cm model.
A modified version of the gun designed specifically for vehicle-mounting was the 7.5 cm KwK 40.
The Pak 40 was the standard German anti-tank gun until the end of the war, 23,303 Pak40s were produced and about 3,500 more were used to arm tank destroyers.
The weapon was effective against almost every Allied tank until the end of the war, only struggling to penetrate heavier vehicles like the
Russian IS tanks, the American Sherman Jumbo and M26 Pershing, and later variants of the British Churchill tank.
But overall performance was pretty good.
It was also see action in the Vietnam war and would be used by Norway postwar.
This Pak40 was probably knocked out during the Battle of the Bulge and was placed here next to the school in the town of Meyerode.
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