15 cm SK L/45
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The 15 cm SK L/45[Note 1] was a German naval gun used in World War I and World War II.
The 15 cm SK L/45 was a widely used naval gun on many classes of World War I dreadnoughts and cruisers in both casemates and turrets. It was constructed of an A tube and two layers of hoops with a Krupp horizontal sliding-wedge breech block. During World War I a few pre-war cruisers that were armed with 10.5 cm guns were rearmed with these weapons. In World War II the 15 cm SK L/45 was widely used as coastal artillery and as primary armament on German auxiliary cruisers.
Ship classes that carried the 15 cm SK L/45 include: Script error: No such module "Template wrapper".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
| Type of mount | Designation | Weight | Elevation | Range (during World War I) | Ship classes |
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| Single pedestal mounts in casemates | MPL C/06 | Script error: No such module "convert". | −7° to +20° | Script error: No such module "convert". at 20° | Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities".es, Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". |
| MPL C/06.11 | Script error: No such module "convert". | −10° to +19° | Script error: No such module "convert". at +19 | Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | |
| MPL C/13 | Script error: No such module "convert". | −8.5° to +19 | Script error: No such module "convert". at +19 | Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | |
| MPL C/13 mod | Script error: No such module "convert". | −8.5° to +22 | Script error: No such module "convert". at +22 | Wartime modification to MPL C/13 | |
| Single pedestal mounts in open half-shields | MPL C/14 | Script error: No such module "convert". | −10° to +22° | Script error: No such module "convert". at +22 | Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". |
| MPL C/16 | Script error: No such module "convert". | −10° to +27° | Script error: No such module "convert". at +27 | Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". | |
| MPL C/16 mod | −10° to +30 | Script error: No such module "convert". at +30 | wartime modification to MPL C/16 |
Ammunition
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The gun was able to fire:
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Coast defense gun
The same gun was used for coast defense duties in concrete emplacements after World War I. One example was 3./Marine-Artillerie Abteilung 604 ("3rd Battery of Naval Artillery Battalion 604") in Jersey.[2] They show it using Script error: No such module "convert". shells with a range of Script error: No such module "convert".
Railroad gun
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See also
Weapons of comparable role, performance and era
- BL 6 inch Mk XII naval gun British equivalent
Footnotes
Notes
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- ↑ SK - Schnelladekanone (quick loading cannon); L - Länge in Kaliber (length in caliber)
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