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15 cm Kanone 39

Field	Value
name	15 cm K. 39
image	Catalog of Enemy Ordnance Materiel, 15 cm Kanone 39 in Fahrtposition.png
image_size	300
caption	15 cm Kanone 39 in traveling position.
origin	Nazi Germany
type	Heavy gun
is_artillery	yes
used_by	Nazi Germany
Turkey
wars	World War II
designer	Krupp
design_date	1938
manufacturer	Krupp
production_date	1939–42?
number	61
weight	combat: 12,200 kg
(26,896 lbs)
travel: 18,282 kg
(40,305 lbs)
part_length	8.195 m (28 ft) L/55
cartridge	149 x 815 mm R
cartridge_weight	43 kg
caliber	149.1 mm (5.87 in)
rate	2 rpm
velocity	865 m/s (2,838 ft/s)
max_range	24.7 km
breech	Horizontal sliding-block
recoil	Hydro-pneumatic
carriage	Split trail
elevation	-3° to +46°
traverse	60° on carriage (trail legs open)
360° on platform

Turkey (26,896 lbs) travel: 18,282 kg (40,305 lbs) 360° on platform

The 15 cm Kanone 39 (15 cm K. 39) was a German heavy gun used in the Second World War. First deliveries began in 1940 to the Wehrmacht. In the Battle of France, only the independent Artillerie-Batterie 698 was equipped with the gun. For Operation Barbarossa, it served with the Artillerie-Abteilungen 680, 731, 740, 800. A year later, for Fall Blau, they served with Artillerie-Abteilungen 511, 620, 680, 767, 800.

Design and history

Designed by Krupp as a dual-purpose heavy field and coast defence gun in the late-1930s for Turkey. Only two had been delivered before the rest were appropriated by the Heer upon the outbreak of World War II. In the coast defense role, it was provided with an elaborate portable turntable. This had a central platform and twelve radial struts that connected to an outer ring. In action, the trails would be locked together and put on a small trolley that rode on the outer ring. Coarse aiming was by cranking the trolley back and forth while fine laying was done by traversing the gun on its mount, up to the 6° limit imposed by the closed trails.

For transport, it broke down into two loads, the barrel being removed and carried on its own wagon. A third wagon was necessary to carry the firing platform. It could fire the same ammunition as the 15 cm Kanone 18 as well as its own special ammunition designed to Turkish specifications.

References

;Citations ;Sources

Engelmann, Joachim and Scheibert, Horst. Deutsche Artillerie 1934-1945: Eine Dokumentation in Text, Skizzen und Bildern: Ausrüstung, Gliederung, Ausbildung, Führung, Einsatz. Limburg/Lahn, Germany: C. A. Starke, 1974
Gander, Terry and Chamberlain, Peter. Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945. New York: Doubleday, 1979
Hogg, Ian V. German Artillery of World War Two. 2nd corrected edition. Mechanicsville: Stackpole Books, 1997
Weapon Production Totals on Sinews of War

References

Bishop, Chris. The encyclopedia of weapons of world War II. Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2002, p.133
Niehorster, Leo W. G. ''German World War II Organizational Series, Vol. 2/II: Mechanized GHQ units and Waffen-SS Formations (10 May 1940)'', 1990, p. 23
Niehorster, Leo W. G. ''German World War II Organizational Series, Vol. 3/II: Mechanized GHQ units and Waffen-SS Formations (22nd June 1941)'', 1992, p. 22
Niehorster, Leo W. G. ''German World War II Organizational Series, Vol. 4/II: Mechanized GHQ units and Waffen-SS Formations (28th June 1942)'', 2004, p. 20

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