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Old October 30th, 2016, 06:59 PM
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Default Re: USA: Early M4 hulls with L40 gun?

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Originally Posted by Copernicus View Post
Oh, but back to the actual question of the thread:

Cross, do you think you can confirm that there was only one actual version of the 75mm M3 gun, and that the alleged two lengths were just rounding or different measuring?


I can tell you that a primary US document lists the gun length as 118.36 inches, which is 3007mm or L40.

I don't know how they measured, but there's no muzzle brake to muddy the waters, and if they included the breech, as they do on the continent, then the breech would have to be about 20cm to explain a L37 or L37.5 length.





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