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The D-10 is a Soviet antitank gun developed in late World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, and installed in tank destroyer
Tank destroyer

A self-propelled anti-tank gun, or tank destroyer, is a type of armoured fighting vehicle designed specifically to engage enemy armor forces, and not produced for an infantry support role....
s and tank
Tank

A tank is a Continuous track, armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility and Military tactics Offensive and defence capabilities....
s. Versions of the 100mm calibre gun were installed on new T-55
T-55

The T-54 and T-55 tanks were a series of main battle tanks designed in the Soviet Union. The first T-54 prototype appeared in March 1945, just before the end of the World War II....
 tanks as late as 1979, and continue to be in active service in many countries.

History
At the beginning of 1944, the T-34
T-34

The T-34 was a Soviet Union Tank classification produced from 1940 to 1958. It is widely regarded as having been the world's best tank when the Soviet Union became involved in World War II, and although its armoured fighting vehicle and armament were surpassed by later tanks of the era, it has been often credited as the war's most effective,...
 tank's F-34 76.2mm tank gun was replaced by a more powerful 85mm gun.






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The D-10 is a Soviet antitank gun developed in late World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, and installed in tank destroyer
Tank destroyer

A self-propelled anti-tank gun, or tank destroyer, is a type of armoured fighting vehicle designed specifically to engage enemy armor forces, and not produced for an infantry support role....
s and tank
Tank

A tank is a Continuous track, armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility and Military tactics Offensive and defence capabilities....
s. Versions of the 100mm calibre gun were installed on new T-55
T-55

The T-54 and T-55 tanks were a series of main battle tanks designed in the Soviet Union. The first T-54 prototype appeared in March 1945, just before the end of the World War II....
 tanks as late as 1979, and continue to be in active service in many countries.

History


At the beginning of 1944, the T-34
T-34

The T-34 was a Soviet Union Tank classification produced from 1940 to 1958. It is widely regarded as having been the world's best tank when the Soviet Union became involved in World War II, and although its armoured fighting vehicle and armament were surpassed by later tanks of the era, it has been often credited as the war's most effective,...
 tank's F-34 76.2mm tank gun was replaced by a more powerful 85mm gun. This rendered the year-old SU-85
SU-85

The SU-85 was a Soviet Union self-propelled gun used during World War II, based on the chassis of the T-34 medium tank. Earlier Soviet self-propelled guns were meant to serve as either assault guns, such as the SU-122, or as mobile anti-tank weapons; the SU-85 fell into the latter category....
 tank destroyer effectively obsolescent, since with its D-5T 85mm gun, it could no longer be considered a specialist antitank vehicle superior to the more flexible medium tank. F. F. Petrov
Fyodor Petrov

Fyodor Fyodorovich Petrov was a Soviet Union artillery designer....
's Design Bureau at Artillery Factory No. 9 was assigned the task of producing a 100mm antitank gun for the proposed SU-100
SU-100

The SU-100 was a Soviet Union tank destroyer. It was used extensively during the last year of World War II and saw service for many years afterwards with the armies of Soviet allies around the world....
. Petrov's team modified the S-34 naval gun for use in an armoured fighting vehicle.

The D-10 is a high-velocity gun of 100mm calibre, with a barrel length of 53.5 calibres. Its muzzle velocity of 895 m/s gave it good antitank performance by late-war standards. It could penetrate about 185 mm of vertical armor plate at 1,000 m range, making it superior to the German 75mm KwK 42 mounted on the Panther tank
Panther tank

The Panther was a tank fielded by Germany in World War II that served from mid-1943 to the end of the European war in 1945. It was intended as a counter to the T-34, and to replace the Panzer IV and Panzer III, though it served along with them and the heavy tanks until the end of the war....
 and the original 88mm guns such as the Tiger I
Tiger I

The Tiger I was a Nazi Germany heavy tank used in World War II, from late 1942 until the German surrender in 1945. The tank design served as the basis for other armoured vehicles: the Sturmtiger heavy self-propelled gun and the Bergetiger armoured recovery vehicle....
's KwK 36
KwK 36

The 8.8 cm KwK 36 L/56 or was an 8.8 cm electrically fired tank gun used by the Germany Wehrmacht, during World War II. This was the primary weapon of the Tiger I tank....
, but not as good as the Tiger II
Tiger II

Tiger II is the common name of a Nazi Germany heavy tank of the World War II. The official German designation was Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. B and the tank also had the ordnance inventory designation Sonderkraftfahrzeug 182....
's longer KwK 43 L/71
KwK 43 L/71

The KwK 43 L/71 was an 8.8 cm tank gun used by the Germany Wehrmacht, during the World War II. The anti-tank gun version of this weapon was known as the PaK 43, and this name was also applied to versions of this weapon mounted in various armored vehicles....
 gun. The larger 100mm shell allowed it to fire a heavier high-explosive round.

It was originally designed to equip the SU-100
SU-100

The SU-100 was a Soviet Union tank destroyer. It was used extensively during the last year of World War II and saw service for many years afterwards with the armies of Soviet allies around the world....
 tank destroyer as the D-10S (for s?mokhodnaya, 'self-propelled'), and was later mounted on the post-war T-54 main battle tank as the D-10T (for tankovaya, 'tank' adj.
Adjective

In grammar, an adjective is a word whose main syntax role is to grammatical modifier a noun or pronoun, giving more information about the noun or pronoun's definition....
). There was no significant difference in functionality or performance. It was also tested on the T-34-100
T-34

The T-34 was a Soviet Union Tank classification produced from 1940 to 1958. It is widely regarded as having been the world's best tank when the Soviet Union became involved in World War II, and although its armoured fighting vehicle and armament were surpassed by later tanks of the era, it has been often credited as the war's most effective,...
, T-44-100
T-44

The T-44 was a medium tank of the Soviet Union, first produced towards the end of the World War II. It was the successor to the very successful T-34....
, KV-100
Kliment Voroshilov tank

The Kliment Voroshilov tanks were a series of Soviet heavy tanks, named after the Soviet defense commissar and politician Kliment Voroshilov. At the time of the German invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II, about 500 KV tanks comprised a portion of Soviet tank forces which was clearly superior to German AFVs of World War II....
, and IS-2
Iosif Stalin tank

The Iosif Stalin tank , was a heavy tank developed by the Soviet Union during World War II. The tanks in the series are also sometimes called JS or ?? tanks....
 (obyekt 245).

In 1955, vertical-plane STP-1 Gorizont stabilizer and a bore evacuator
Bore evacuator

A bore evacuator is a device on the gun barrel of an armoured fighting vehicle which helps prevent poisonous propellant gases from venting back into the vehicle's fighting compartment when the gun breech is opened to load another shell ....
 were added to a new D-10TG version of the gun. In 1956, a new D-10T2S version of the gun began production for T-54B and T-55 tanks, equipped with two-plane Tsyklon gun stabilization.

Versions of the D-10 were installed on new tanks as late as 1979, and thousands still remain in service in various countries.

A version of the D-10 was installed as a coastal artillery piece in Finland in the 1960s. This weapon is designated 100 56 TK in Finnish Navy
Finnish Navy

The Finnish Navy is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. The Navy employs 2,300 people and about 4,300 conscriptions are trained each year....
 service.

Ammunition


During World War II, UOF-412 ammunition carried the 15.6-kg (34.39 lbs) F-412 high-explosive fragmentation shell. Antitank ammunition available from World War II until the late 1960s was based on the UBR-412 round, including the BR-412 armour-piercing high-explosive projectile, with the ballistic-capped BR-412B and BR-412D ammunition becoming available in the late 1940s. There was also a D-412 smoke shell.

In 1964, the NII-24 research bureau started design work on an improved 3UBM6 antitank round. In 1967 the 3BM6 hyper-velocity armour-piercing discarding-sabot round (HVAPDS) entered service, which could penetrate 290 mm of armour at 2,000 m, or 80 mm of armour angled at 60 degrees from the vertical. It was later replaced by the 3BM8 HVAPDS projectile, with a tungsten carbide penetrator. High-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) rounds, which penetrate armour with the focussed explosion of a shaped charge
Shaped charge

A shaped charge is an explosive charge shaped to focus the effect of the explosive's energy. Various types are used to cut and form metal, initiate nuclear weapons, and penetrate armour....
, included the 3UBK4 with 3BK5M warhead, later replaced by the 3UBK9 with 3BK17M warhead.

In the 1980s, 3UBM11 antitank rounds were introduced, with 3BM25 armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding-sabot (APFSDS) tungsten carbide penetrator, which increased its armor penetration.

In 1983, the T-55M and T-55AM tank upgrade program also added the ability to some tanks to fire the 9K116-1 Bastion
9M117 Bastion

The 9M117 Bastion is a Russian laser beam-riding anti-tank missile. It is used in a number of separate weapon systems including the 9K116-1 Bastion missile system , 9K118 Sheksna , MT-12 and the 3UBK12 fired from the BMP-3....
 guided missile system (NATO reporting name AT-10 Stabber), for long-range engagements of tanks and low-flying helicopters. The antitank missile
Anti-tank guided missile

An anti-tank guided missile or anti-tank guided weapon is a Missile guidance missile primarily designed to hit and destroy heavily-armored tanks and other armored fighting vehicles....
 is encased in the 3UBK10-1 shell, which is handled, loaded, and fired exactly like a conventional tank gun round. 1.5 seconds after firing, a laser guidance window in the tail of the round is uncovered, and its rocket engine ignites to burn for up to six seconds, with a total missile flight time of up to 41 seconds. The missile is very expensive, about half the price of a T-55M tank, but allows the venerable 100mm gun to engage modern main battle tanks.

Missile ammunition includes:
  • 3UBK10-1 (9M117 Bastion), penetrating 600 mm at up to 4,000 m
  • 3UBK10M-1 (9M117M Kan) tandem warhead, penetrating 650 mm at up to 4,000 m
  • 3UBK23-1 (9M117M1 Arkan) extended-range tandem warhead, penetrating 750 mm at up to 6,000 m
  • 3UBK23M-1 (9M117M2 Boltok) extended-range warhead penetrating 850 mm at up to 6,000 m


Performance



See also

  • 100-mm field gun M1944 (BS-3)


External links

  • at battlefield.ru
  • at battlefield.ru
  • at battlefield.ru