M-1939 (KS-12)
85mm Anti-Aircraft Gun

M-1939 (KS-12)
85mm Anti-Aircraft Gun

Designer: M. N. Loginov

Manufacturer:

Artillery Plant No. 8 at Kaliningrad and near Sverdlovsk during the Great Patriotic War

Role:

Anti-Aircraft Gun

Year Adopted:

1939

Weight
     Traveling:
     Deployed:

 
4,300 kg
4,300 kg

Operational Status:
     (As of 1998)

Russia - Obsolete
Other Nations - Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Egypt, Iraq, North Korea, Romania, Sudan, Syria, Vietnam, Yemen, Serbia, Montenegro, and Zambia

Armament:

85mm Main Gun

Recoil System:
Hydraulic recoil buffer and hydro-pneumatic recuperator

Weapon Range
     Effective Vertical:
     Maximum Vertical:
     Maximum Horizontal:

 
10,000 meters
10,500 meters
15,650 meters

Sustained Rate of Fire: 15-20 rnds per minute
Gun Crew: 7 men

Shell Weight:

9.2 kg (O-365 fragmentation shell)

Muzzle Velocity: 792 meters per second

Length (traveling):

7.05 meters

Width (traveling): 2.15 meters
Height (traveling): 2.25 meters

Total Traverse:

360 degrees

Elevation:

-3 to +82

Common Towing Vehicles: ZIL-157 Truck

    

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