100 mm anti-tank gun T-12
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2A19 or T-12 is a Soviet-designed 100-mm anti-tank gun. It was the first anti-tank gun to adopt a smoothbore barrel, and to introduce modern armor piercing shot, like the APFSDS. It uses long projecti
T-12 displayed in the Artillery Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
T-12 rear view showing only the two recoil tubes.
The mechanical S71-40 indirect aiming mechanism
Ukraine's first self propelled T-12
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100 mm anti-tank gun T-12
…from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. The T-12 was designed by the construction bureau of the Yurga Machine-Building Plant as a replacement for the BS-3 100 mm gun. The first serial examples were produced in 1955, but the T-12 entered service only in 1961. Its special feature was the use of a smoothbore gun. The…
BS-3 at the Israel Defense Forces History Museum, Israel
BS-3 at the Israel Defense Forces History Museum