B-11 recoilless rifle
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The B-11 recoilless rifle (It is also known as RG107)[1] is a Soviet 107 mm smoothbore recoilless gun. It entered service in 1954,[2] and was typically towed by a 6x6 ZIL-157 truck or a UAZ 4x4 truck.[3][4]
Designed by KB Mashinostroyeniya (KBM), Kolomna.
It is fitted using a PBO-4 sight which has a 5.5x zoom direct fire sight and a 2.5x zoom sight for indirect fire.
Specifications
[edit]- Crew: 5
- Calibre: 107 mm (4.21 in)
- Weight: 304.8 kg (672 lb)
- Length: 3.56 m (11.67 ft) (travel position)
- Barrel length: 3.383 m (11 ft)
- Height: 1.19 m (3.90 ft) (firing position). 0.9 m (3 ft) (travel)
- Traverse: 35 degrees in each direction
- Elevation: -10/+45
- Rate of fire: 6 rounds per minute
Ammunition
[edit]- BK-883 - HEAT.
Projectile 7.51 kg (16.5 lb).
Complete round 12.5 kg (27.5 lb).
Warhead 1.06 kg (2.3 lb) of RDX/Aluminium.
GK-2 PIBD fuze.
Range: 450 m (490 yd) (effective) 1,400 m (1,530 yd) (max).
Penetration 381 mm (15 in).
Muzzle velocity - O-883A - FRAG-HE.
Projectile 8.5 kg (19 lb).
Complete round 13.5 kg (30 lb).
Warhead 2.088 kg (4.6 lb) Amatol 80/20.
GK-2 PIBD fuze.
Muzzle velocity: 375 m/s (1,230 ft/s).
Range: 1,300 m (1,420 yd) (direct) 6,650 m (7,270 yd) (indirect)
Users
[edit]Current users
Algeria: 60 as of 2016[update][5]
Angola[6]
Cambodia[7]
Ethiopia[8]
Iran[9]
Laos[10]
North Korea
Syria
Vietnam
Former users
Soviet Union
Bulgaria
China
East Germany
Egypt[11]
Indonesia[12]
Iraq[13]
Nigeria: some used during Biafran War[14]
North Vietnam[15]
Poland
Somalia
Romania
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- International Institute for Strategic Studies (February 2016). The Military Balance 2016. Vol. 116. Routlegde. ISBN 9781857438352.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Foss, Christopher F. (1981). Artillery of the world (U.S. ed.). New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780684167220. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
- ^ Rottman, Gordon L. (20 October 2013). The Big Book of Gun Trivia: Everything you want to know, don't want to know, and don't know you need to know. ISBN 9781782009504. Archived from the original on 2018-08-16. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ Krauthammer, Theodor (February 2008). Modern Protective Structures. ISBN 9781420015423. Archived from the original on 2018-08-15. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
- ^ Military Balance 2016, p. 320.
- ^ Military Balance 2016, p. 429.
- ^ Military Balance 2016, p. 239.
- ^ Military Balance 2016, p. 445.
- ^ Military Balance 2016, p. 328.
- ^ Military Balance 2016, p. 271.
- ^ McNab, Chris (2018). Sagger Anti-Tank Missile vs M60 Main Battle Tank: Yom Kippur War 1973. Duel 84. Osprey Publishing. p. 44. ISBN 9781472825773.
- ^ Pertahanan Strategis, Lembaga Kajian (1975). "Latihan Menembak Senjata STTB oleh Yon 144 di Lahat". Facebook (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2022-12-25.
- ^ Rottman, Gordon L. (1993). Armies of the Gulf War. Elite 45. Osprey Publishing. p. 49. ISBN 9781855322776.
- ^ Jowett, Philip (2016). Modern African Wars (5): The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70. Oxford: Osprey Publishing Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1472816092.
- ^ Ezell, Edward Clinton (1988). Personal firepower. The Illustrated history of the Vietnam War 15. Bantam Books. pp. 142-143. OCLC 1036801376.
External links
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