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[[File:Weapon ZIS-5 (76 mm).png|thumb|right|x250px|The ZIS-5 (76 mm) on the KV-1 (ZiS-5) gun mantlet.]]
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== Description ==
 
== Description ==
The '''ZiS-5 (76 mm)''' is a modification of the Soviet F-34 tank gun, used on various KV-1 tanks.
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The '''76 mm ZiS-5''' is a modification of the Soviet [[F-34 (76 mm)|F-34 tank gun]], used on various KV-1 tanks.
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A redesignation was given for '''ZiS-5s''' mounted on field modifications of the Matilda II as '''F-96'''
  
 
=== Vehicles equipped with this weapon ===
 
=== Vehicles equipped with this weapon ===
 
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; ZiS-5
 
* {{Specs-Link|ussr_kv_1_zis_5}}
 
* {{Specs-Link|ussr_kv_1_zis_5}}
 
* {{Specs-Link|ussr_kv_1s}}
 
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* {{Specs-Link|ussr_a_12_mk_2_matilda_2A_F96}}
  
 
== General info ==
 
== General info ==
 
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''Tell us about the tactical and technical characteristics of the cannon or machine gun.''
  
=== Available shells ===
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=== Available ammunition ===
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The available ammunition allows for engaging all types of targets:
 
The available ammunition allows for engaging all types of targets:
  
*'''BR-350A (MD-5 fuze)''': APHEBC; a shell with high explosive mass that will one-shot any tank it penetrates but has an average penetration power.
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*'''BR-350A (MD-5 fuze)''': APHEBC; a shell with high explosive mass that will knock out any tank it penetrates with a single shot but has an average penetration power.
*'''BR-350P''': APCR; a composite round with the best penetration but no explosive filler and will only penetrate flat vertical surfaces.
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*'''BR-354P''': APCR; a composite round with the best penetration but no explosive filler and will only penetrate flat vertical surfaces.
 
*'''BR-350SP''': APBC; a solid shot with an even better penetration but no explosive filler.
 
*'''BR-350SP''': APBC; a solid shot with an even better penetration but no explosive filler.
 
*'''BR-350B (MD-8 fuze)''': APHEBC; same shell as the BR-350A but with increased penetration at the cost of slightly less explosive filler.
 
*'''BR-350B (MD-8 fuze)''': APHEBC; same shell as the BR-350A but with increased penetration at the cost of slightly less explosive filler.
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*'''D-350A''': Smoke; useful to blind enemy vehicles that are too remote for you to disable so that you can progress towards objectives.
 
*'''D-350A''': Smoke; useful to blind enemy vehicles that are too remote for you to disable so that you can progress towards objectives.
  
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" width="100%"
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{{:{{PAGENAME}}/Ammunition|BR-350A (MD-5 fuze), BR-354P, BR-350SP, BR-350B (MD-8 fuze), OF-350M, Sh-354T, D-350A}}
! colspan="8" |Penetration statistics
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! rowspan="2" data-sort-type="text" |Ammunition
 
! rowspan="2" |Type of
 
warhead
 
! colspan="6" |Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
 
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!10 m!!100 m!!500 m!!1,000 m!!1,500 m!!2,000 m
 
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|BR-350A (MD-5 fuze)||APHEBC||87||85||76||67||59||52
 
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|BR-350P||APCR||125||119||92||68||50||36
 
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|BR-350SP||APBC||102||100||91||81||72||64
 
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|BR-350B (MD-8 fuze)||APHEBC||94||92||83||73||65||57
 
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|OF-350M||HE||10||10||10||10||10||10
 
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|Sh-354T||Shrapnel||37||35||29||25||20||17
 
|}
 
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" width="100%"
 
! colspan="10" |Shell details
 
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! rowspan="2" data-sort-type="text" |Ammunition
 
! rowspan="2" |Type of
 
warhead
 
! rowspan="2" |Velocity
 
(m/s)
 
! rowspan="2" |Projectile
 
Mass (kg)
 
! rowspan="2" |Fuse delay
 
(m)
 
! rowspan="2" |Fuse sensitivity
 
(mm)
 
! rowspan="2" |Explosive Mass
 
(TNT equivalent) (g)
 
! colspan="3" |Ricochet
 
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!0%!!50%!!100%
 
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|BR-350A (MD-5 fuze)||APHEBC||662||6.3||1.2||14||150||48°||63°||71°
 
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|BR-350P||APCR||950||3.02||N/A||N/A||N/A||66°||70°||72°
 
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|BR-350SP||APBC||655||6.78||N/A||N/A||N/A||48°||63°||71°
 
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|BR-350B (MD-8 fuze)||APHEBC||655||6.3||0.9||14||98.56||48°||63°||71°
 
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|OF-350M||HE||680||6.2||0.05||0.1||621||79°||80°||81°
 
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|Sh-354T||Shrapnel||680||6.2||0.5||8||85||62°||69°||73°
 
|}
 
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
 
! colspan="7" |Smoke shell characteristics
 
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!Ammunition
 
!Velocity
 
(m/s)
 
!Projectile
 
Mass (kg)
 
!Screen radius
 
(m)
 
!Screen deploy time
 
(s)
 
!Screen hold time
 
(s)
 
!Explosive Mass
 
(TNT equivalent) (g)
 
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|D-350A||680||6.45||13||5||20||50
 
|}
 
 
=== Comparison with analogues ===
 
=== Comparison with analogues ===
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== Usage in battles ==
 
== Usage in battles ==
The ZiS-5 has somewhat inadequate penetration for its tier, and thus will often struggle when facing well armored enemies frontally. Therefore, despite being fitted exclusively to heavy tanks, the ZiS-5 works best when flanking, as its high explosive mass often guarantees a one hit kill when shooting center mass from the side.
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The ZiS-5 has somewhat inadequate penetration for its rank, and thus will often struggle when facing well-armoured enemies frontally. Therefore, despite being fitted exclusively to heavy tanks, the ZiS-5 works best when flanking, as its high explosive mass often guarantees a one-hit knock-out when shooting center mass from the side.
  
 
=== Pros and cons ===
 
=== Pros and cons ===
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'''Pros:'''
 
'''Pros:'''
  
* Extremely powerful APHEBC shells
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* APHEBC shells have good post-penetration damage
 
 
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'''Cons:'''
 
'''Cons:'''
  
* Slow reload
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* Long reload time
* Inadequate penetration for many tanks faced in uptiers
 
 
 
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== History ==
 
== History ==
The F-34 gun was designed before the outbreak of the second world war by P. Muraviev of Vasiliy Grabin's design bureau at Factory No. 92 in Gorky. Despite being superior to its Soviet contemporaries, bureaucracy prevented the gun from being adopted until much later in the war when the Kharkov Locomotive Factory began fitting F-34 guns to T-34 tanks against orders, with the resulting praise for the gun from its crews leading to the gun being officially authorized for production. This also allowed for the adoption of the F-34 onto the KV-1 heavy tank, leading to the ZiS-5, a version of the F-34 gun designed to better fit the KV-1's turret, replacing the original [[L-11 (76 mm)|L-11]] gun found on earlier KV-1
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By 1943 however the F-34 and ZiS-5 became obsolete, being unable to penetrate the thick armor found on the new Tiger and Panther heavy tanks. This led to the two being replaced by the [[ZIS-S-53 (85 mm)|ZIS-S-53]] on the T-34-85, while the new IS tanks received the [[D-5T (85 mm)|D-5T]] and later the [[D-25T (122 mm)|D-25T]] guns instead.
 
  
 
== Media ==
 
== Media ==
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== See also ==
 
== See also ==
 
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* ''reference to the article about the variant of the cannon/machine gun;''
 
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== External links ==
 
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* [[wikipedia:76_mm_tank_gun_M1940_F-34|[Wikipedia] 76 mm tank gun M1940 F-34]]
 
* [[wikipedia:76_mm_tank_gun_M1940_F-34|[Wikipedia] 76 mm tank gun M1940 F-34]]

Latest revision as of 14:27, 1 March 2023

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The ZIS-5 (76 mm) on the KV-1 (ZiS-5) gun mantlet.

Description

The 76 mm ZiS-5 is a modification of the Soviet F-34 tank gun, used on various KV-1 tanks.

A redesignation was given for ZiS-5s mounted on field modifications of the Matilda II as F-96

Vehicles equipped with this weapon

ZiS-5
F-96

General info

Tell us about the tactical and technical characteristics of the cannon or machine gun.

Available ammunition

The available ammunition allows for engaging all types of targets:

  • BR-350A (MD-5 fuze): APHEBC; a shell with high explosive mass that will knock out any tank it penetrates with a single shot but has an average penetration power.
  • BR-354P: APCR; a composite round with the best penetration but no explosive filler and will only penetrate flat vertical surfaces.
  • BR-350SP: APBC; a solid shot with an even better penetration but no explosive filler.
  • BR-350B (MD-8 fuze): APHEBC; same shell as the BR-350A but with increased penetration at the cost of slightly less explosive filler.
  • OF-350M: HE; useful for destroying open and lightly armoured vehicles.
  • Sh-354T: Shrapnel; useful against vehicles that are resistant to the HE shells but too thinly armoured to trigger the fuzes of AP shells.
  • D-350A: Smoke; useful to blind enemy vehicles that are too remote for you to disable so that you can progress towards objectives.

Penetration statistics
Ammunition Type of
warhead
Penetration @ 0° Angle of Attack (mm)
10 m 100 m 500 m 1,000 m 1,500 m 2,000 m
BR-350A (MD-5 fuse) APHEBC 87 85 77 69 62 55
BR-354P APCR 125 117 87 60 41 28
BR-350SP APBC 99 96 87 76 66 58
BR-350B (MD-8 fuse) APHEBC 96 94 84 74 64 56
OF-350M HE 10 10 10 10 10 10
Sh-354T Shrapnel 35 34 30 26 22 19
Shell details
Ammunition Type of
warhead
Velocity
(m/s)
Projectile
mass (kg)
Fuse delay
(m)
Fuse sensitivity
(mm)
Explosive mass
(TNT equivalent) (g)
Ricochet
0% 50% 100%
BR-350A (MD-5 fuse) APHEBC 662 6.3 1.2 14 150 48° 63° 71°
BR-354P APCR 950 3.02 - - - 66° 70° 72°
BR-350SP APBC 655 6.5 - - - 48° 63° 71°
BR-350B (MD-8 fuse) APHEBC 655 6.5 0.9 14 100.1 48° 63° 71°
OF-350M HE 680 6.2 0.05 0.1 621 79° 80° 81°
Sh-354T Shrapnel 618 6.44 1.2 14 85 62° 69° 73°
Smoke shell characteristics
Ammunition Velocity
(m/s)
Projectile
mass (kg)
Screen radius
(m)
Screen deploy
time (s)
Screen hold
time (s)
Explosive mass
(TNT equivalent) (g)
D-350A 680 6.45 13 5 20 50

Comparison with analogues

Give a comparative description of cannons/machine guns that have firepower equal to this weapon.

Usage in battles

The ZiS-5 has somewhat inadequate penetration for its rank, and thus will often struggle when facing well-armoured enemies frontally. Therefore, despite being fitted exclusively to heavy tanks, the ZiS-5 works best when flanking, as its high explosive mass often guarantees a one-hit knock-out when shooting center mass from the side.

Pros and cons

Pros:

  • APHEBC shells have good post-penetration damage

Cons:

  • Long reload time

History

Examine the history of the creation and combat usage of the weapon in more detail than in the introduction. If the historical reference turns out to be too long, take it to a separate article, taking a link to the article about the weapon and adding a block "/History" (example: https://wiki.warthunder.com/(Weapon-name)/History) and add a link to it here using the main template. Be sure to reference text and sources by using <ref></ref>, as well as adding them at the end of the article with <references />.

Media

Excellent additions to the article would be video guides, screenshots from the game, and photos.

See also

Links to the articles on the War Thunder Wiki that you think will be useful for the reader, for example:

  • reference to the article about the variant of the cannon/machine gun;
  • references to approximate analogues by other nations and research trees.

External links


USSR tank cannons
20 mm  TNSh
30 mm  2A42 · 2A72 · AG-30
45 mm  20-K
57 mm  AU-220 · Ch-51M · ZIS-2 · ZIS-4 · ZIS-4M
73 mm  2A28
76 mm  1902/30 · 3-K · D-56TS · F-32 · F-34 · F-96 · KT-28 · L-10 · L-11 · ZIS-3 · ZIS-5
85 mm  D-5S · D-5T · D-58 · D-70 · F-30 · ZIS-S-53
100 mm  2A48 · 2A70 · D-10S · D-10T · D-10T2S · D-50 · LB-1 · S-34
107 mm  ZIS-6
115 mm  U-5TS
122 mm  A-19 · D-25-44T · D-25S · D-25T · D-25TS · D-30T · D-49 · M-30 · M-62-T2S
125 mm  2A26 · 2A46 · 2A46M · 2A46M-1 · 2A46M-4 · 2A46M-5 · 2A46MS · 2A75 · D-126
130 mm  B-13 · C-70 · M-65
152 mm  2A33 · LP-83 · M-10T · M-64 · M-69 · ML-20S
  Foreign:
37 mm  M5 (USA)
50 mm  KwK L/42 (Germany)
57 mm  6pdr OQF Mk.III (Britain) · M1 (USA)
75 mm  KwK42 (Germany) · M2 (USA)
76 mm  M1 (USA)
85 mm  Type-62-85-TC (China)