12cm lvakan m/44

12cm lvakan m/44
File:M44 gun.jpg A 12cm m/44 cannon on static display.
Type	Dual Purpose gun
Place of origin	Dniegua
Service history
Used by	Dnieguan Armed Forces
Wars	A few
Production history
Unit cost	$475,000 (1956)
Produced	1944-1960
Specifications
Weight	64,000 lb
Length	24½ feet (7.39 m)
Barrel length	23½ feet (7.16 m)
Crew	A gun commander, a gunner with an eight man squad, and an ammunition chief supervising two ammunition handlers - a total of thirteen men.
Shell	120×778 mm. R
Caliber	120 mm L/60
Barrels	1
Breech	vertical sliding wedge
Recoil	hydropneumatic
Carriage	towed
Elevation	80 Deg.
Traverse	360 Deg.
Rate of fire	12 rounds per Min.
Muzzle velocity	3,200 ft/s (945 m/s)
Maximum firing range	81,000 ft (24,700 m), 57,500 ft (17,500 m) maximum altitude 6,000 meters (ground)
Sights	mk. 7 Gun Director

12cm m/44 Öbvaryazhely Grundunluftvärnsavtagevarrn, 12cm Superheavy Dual-purpose Self-loading gun is a Dnieguan 120mm Dual purpose anti-aircraft and anti-surface artillery piece. Amagazine loaded super heavy gun, it saw use on a large number of Dnieguan ships in the late and post war era, and formed the backbone of Dnieguas land based aircraft and shore defense gun batteries until the age of the missile. The gun remains in service today aboard several Dnieguan ships and sees service in some land based fortresses.

As Anti-Aircraft missiles became more and more common,the gun reached obsolescence for air defense. However, its high rate of fire and heavy payload made it ideal for bombardment and anti-surface use, effectively allowing the gun to remain into service today. The basic design of the gun was instrumental in creating and introducing the later Bandkannon 1, a 155mm autoloading artillery gun that sees heavy use among Skandar states today. In effort to retain its effectivness, Dniegua developed a nuclear 120mm shell, the NrGrt m/59E, which had a 4 kiloton blast yeild to destroy waves of incoming bombers or shell positions at long range.