British wingless seaplane to strike a German submarine, called Sea Skimmer armed with a machine gun and a 20-mm Oerlikon cannon. For attacking submerged U-boats it carried four depth charges, which rest on the catamaran floats under the hull's stern. These can be replaced by torpedoes.
Canadian three-barreled Polsten installation of 20-mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft guns and a captured 88-m PaK 43 cannon on the R669 bunker in Normandy. 1944
British wingless seaplane to strike a German submarine, called Sea Skimmer armed with a machine gun and a 20-mm Oerlikon cannon. For attacking submerged U-boats it carried four depth charges, which rest on the catamaran floats under the hull's stern. These can be replaced by torpedoes.
Two crew of HMIS Narbada cleaning a twin Oerlikon 20 mm cannon (unknown date and location)
Along with its main guns, the USS Texas carried 10 x 3 inch AA guns, 40 x 40 mm Bofors AA guns, and 44 Γ 20 mm Oerlikon cannons. If anything, we're getting off easy when we attack ships.[xpost /r/WarshipPorn]
Eastern Front, 1944. A German soldier has access to an Oerlikon 20 mm cannon with 200 rounds of ammunition. How effective would he be if he attacked a nearby Soviet T-34 Tank?
I'm currently fascinated with the potential damage that copious quantities of 20-40mm shells could inflict upon large targets such as ships or tanks. Blame the A-10 for this.
Edit: A-10 vs Yamato? Hmmm.
Operation Olive Branch FSA forces advance, using an ACV-15, M113 and a technical with mounted Oerlikon 20 mm auto cannons to capture the town of Maryamayn in northern Afrin youtube.com/watch?v=JjKhiβ¦
A member of the Kreigsmarine operating a 20 mm Oerlikon cannon on a marine vessel. His trade badge on his left arm appears to be that of a Boatswain
Day 4 of posting random Italian tanks (or IFVs). Armored car OTO Melara R3 armed with 20-mm Oerlikon autocannon (a.k.a. T20 FA-HS variant). Also there was other 5 variants: T7.62F, T12.7F, Folgore 2x FA, T106 x2 FA and TOW Turret. Sadly, project wasn't successful and was discontinued.
20 mm Oerlikon mount on HMNZS Otago (F111) photographed in 1976 during an exercise near Singapore.[3757x3757]
20mm SEMAG auto cannon on a unique mount; precursor to the Oerlikon 20mm cannon of WW2 - Early 1920s
GAI B01 (M113 with 20 mm Oerlikon) Swiss designed and built light anti-aircraft gun used by a lot of different nations with a perfect name
Convair XP5Y-1/R3Y "Tradewind" was an American 1950s turboprop-powered flying boat. First (XP5Y-1) armed with 8,000 lb (3,600 kg) of munitions (bombs, mines, depth charges, torpedoes) and five pairs of 20 mm cannon in side emplacements and a tail turret. Later (R3Y) changed to a cargo/troop carrier.
Bronze 'Tsar cannon' - 20' long, 39 tons. Designed in 1586 to fire 890-mm stone projectiles capable of knocking down castle walls. Each round weighed 1,700 lbs.There is no official record that it was ever fired in war, scoring on the inner barrel suggests it might have been tested at least once.
Israeli Shaldag Mk3 patrol boat, 2014, still rocking a Oerlikon 20 mm [3081x1781]
An IFOR Danish tank Leopard 1A5 crushing a Bosnian-Serb 20 mm cannon in 1996
Battery of 20-mm Oerlikon canons of USS Hornet (CV-12); February 1945.
Soviet Sailors on board the patrol boat Project MO-4 in the Black Sea Fleet, on the foreground is the 12.7-mm large-caliber anti-aircraft gun DShK, in the background is the 20-mm Oerlikon, 1941 [3000 x 1970]
Japanese soldiers manning a 20 mm Type 97 automatic cannon, an anti-tank rifle for practical purposes.
Best part of the dev server stream for a Brit main, those frontal 20 mm cannon were designed to shed ships, it has 15,000 pounds of bombs and rockets- been wanting it for years
Canadian soldiers man a United States Navy owned portable Triple Polsten 20mm anti-aircraft mount (designed by Polish engineers in exile in the United Kingdom). The Polsten was a descendant of the WW1 (Swiss manufactured) Oerlikon auto-cannon. France, circa Jun 1944.
Elco 80-foot torpedo boat PT-130 at cruising speed as seen from PT-143, 1944-45. Note Mark XIII aerial torpedoes, Bofors 40mm gun aft, and 37mm cannon forward on PT-130 and Oerlikon 20mm gun in foreground.[921x647]
The Italian crew of a 20-mm automatic cannon "Breda-SAFAT" Mod. 35 in a combat position. Tobruk. 04/17/1941
[800 x 961] Richelieu's main battery turrets, with the 20 mm (0.79 in) AA Oerlikon guns fitted on the forecastle during the 1943 US refit imgur.com/hqWPLi2
SchΓΌtzenpanzer 11-2 Testing 1962. In 1958 West Germany together with France produced A light armor in the proposal of multiple functions. Equipped with Cannon Rheinmetall MK 20 Rh202 20 mm cannon.
The Italian crew of a 20-mm automatic cannon "Breda-SAFAT" Mod. 35 in a combat position. Tobruk . 04/17/1941
Danish Nimbus motorcycle armed with 20 mm madsen cannon reddit.com/gallery/q8tmhn
Prototype PZL.38 Wilk heavy fighter aircraft, with a single (20 mm FK-A auto cannon the nose, with (2 x 7.92 mm PWU wz.36 machine guns in the nose), at PaΕstwowe ZakΕady Lotnicze, headquarters in the OkΔcie neighborhood of the capital city of Warsaw, Second Republic of Poland, January 1st, 1939.
20_mm_cannon_damage Short Stirling BF 517
A German soldier in occupied Netherlands mans a 20 mm VKPL vz. 36 Oerlikon light anti-aircraft gun from a rooftop. The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands. April 1942 [1200 x 776]
SEAMAN JOCK MACGREOR OF HMCS HAIDA HOLDS βMUNCHERβ THE SHIPβS PET RABBIT BY THE OERLIKON 20 MM GUN PLATFORM. WWII.
Prototype PZL.38 Wilk heavy fighter aircraft, with a single (20 mm FK-A auto cannon the nose, with (2 x 7.92 mm PWU wz.36 machine guns in the nose), at PaΕstwowe ZakΕady Lotnicze, headquarters, OkΔcie neighborhood of Warsaw, Second Republic of Poland, January 1st, 1939. [800 x 548]
B-17 of 384th BG, tail hit by 20 mm cannon 1943
German crew sighting the MG-FF Oerlikon 20mm cannon on a Bf 109F fighter of JG 54 'GrΓΌnherz' fighter wing, near Leningrad, Russia, Aug 1941
Pacific Theatre. 1944. USAAF armourers service the four .50 in M2 Browning machine guns mounted in the remote-controlled dorsal gun turret on a Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter. She was also armed with four 20 mm Hispano cannons. (1024 x 798)
Oerlikon Millennium 35 mm but with Accelerated Ammo Feeder sound v.redd.it/6150vfujm2r61
Two Messerschmitt Bf 110 heavy fighters are pictured over the coast of Sicily in 1942. Armed with four MG 17 machine guns, two MG FF 20 mm cannons, and either one MG 15 machine gun or a twin-barrel MG 81Z. It saw considerable success in the early campaigns of the Second World War.
Pacific Theatre. 1944. Armourers service the four .50 in M2 Browning machine guns mounted in the remote-controlled dorsal gun turret on a Northrop P-61 Black Widow night fighter. She was also armed with four 20 mm Hispano cannons. (1024 x 798)
