7.5 cm PaK 40

7.5 cm PaK 40 - 75x714mmR

The 7.5 cm PaK 40 (full name "7,5 cm Panzerabwehrkanone 40") was a German anti-tank gun developed in 1939-1941 by Rheinmetall and used during the Second World War. It is similar in outward appearance to its smaller predecessor, the 5 cm PaK 38.

Specifications

(1940–1945)

• Type: Anti-Tank Gun

• Caliber: 3 in (7.5 cm)

• Barrel Length: 135.8 in (345 cm) (L/46)

• Weight: 3142 lbs (1425.2 kg)

• Length: 244.1 in (620 cm)

• Height: ???

• Width: ???

• Shell: 75x714mm R

• Crew: 5

• Elevation: -5° to +22°

• Traverse: 65°

• Rate of Fire: 14 rounds/min (practical)

• Muzzle Velocity: 792 m/s (2,598 ft/s)

• Effective Range: 1800 m (5906 ft)

• Feed System: Single-shot

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The 7.5 cm PaK 40 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notes	Date
Story of a Real Man				1948
The Star (Zvezda)		German soldiers		1949
The Battle of Stalingrad (Stalingradskaya bitva), Part I		German soldiers		1949
The Battle of Stalingrad (Stalingradskaya bitva), Part II		German soldiers		1949
The Tank Brigade		German soldiers		1955
Destiny of a Man (Sudba cheloveka)		German soldiers		1959
Fortress on Wheels (Krepost na kolesah)		German soldiers		1960
Far from the Motherland (Vdali ot rodiny)			Seen abandoned	1960
Peace to Him Who Enters (Mir vkhodyashchemu)			Seen abandoned	1961
The Longest Day		German soldiers		1962
Attack and Retreat (Italiani brava gente)			Seen abandoned	1964
Across the Cemetery (Cherez kladbishche)		German troops		1965
No Unknown Soldiers (Net neizvestnykh soldat)		German soldiers		1965
And All Will Be Quiet (Potem nastapi cisza)		German troops		1966
Is Paris Burning?		German soldiers		1966
Shock Troops (Un homme de trop)		German troops		1967
The Night of the Generals		German troops		1967
Liberation: Breakthrough		Soviet soldiers		1969
Liberation: Direction of the Main Blow		Soviet partisans		1969
On the way to Berlin (Na puti v Berlin)		German soldiers		1969
Poem of Kovpak: Alarm (Duma o Kovpake: Nabat)		German soldiers		1973
Sadsacks Go to War (Les Bidasses s'en vont en guerre)		French soldiers		1974
Poem of Kovpak: Snow-Storm (Duma o Kovpake: Buran)		German soldiers		1975
Poem of Kovpak: Carpathians, Carpathians... (Duma o Kovpake: Karpaty, Karpaty...)		German soldiers		1976
A Bridge Too Far		German Soldiers		1977
Cross of Iron		German Soldiers		1977
Corps of General Shubnikov (Korpus generala Shubnikova)		German soldiers		1980
Mercedes Gets Away from the Chase ('Mersedes' ukhodit ot pogoni)		German soldiers		1980
Battle for Moscow		German troops		1985
Uprising		SS troops		2001
The Star (Zvezda)				2002
Black Book		German soldiers		2006
Tali-Ihantala 1944		Finnish soldiers		2007
My Way		German soldiers		2011
The White Tiger (Belyy tigr)				2012
Fury		German soldiers		2014
Battery Number One (Edinichka)			Seen destroyed on battlefield	2015

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notes / Episode	Date
Eternal Call (Vechnyy zov) - Season 2		German soldiers		1983
Take Him Alive (Vzyat zhivym)			Seen in documentary footage	1983
The State Border: Film 5		German soldiers		1987
Special Operations Squad (Otryad spetsyalnogo naznacheniya)		German troops		1987
The Last Battle (Posledniy boy)		German soldiers		2019

Anime

Title	Character	Notes	Date
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood	Amestrian soldiers		2009 - 2010

Video Games

Title	Appears as	Mods	Notes	Date
Battlefield: 1942				2002
Hidden & Dangerous 2				2003
Sniper Elite			unusable	2005
Red Orchestra: Ostfront 41-45			unusable	2006
Company of Heroes	"PaK 40 75mm At Gun"		Mounted on Marder I and III	2006
Clive Barker's Jericho			World War II levels	2007
Mare Nostrum	"PaK40 Anti Tank Gun"			2008
Men of War				2009
Civilization V				2010
Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad			unusable	2013
Company of Heroes 2	"Pak 40 7.5cm Anti-tank Gun"			2013
Battlefield V	"PaK 40"			2018
Enlisted				2021
Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront				2021