Pre-war M1939 still in service: Soviet anti-aircraft gun in service in Indonesia

On the northeast coast of Sumatra, the Indonesian marines conducted exercises aimed at improving the combat skills of personnel.

In general, the routine course of maneuvers was "decorated" with one of the "relics" of the pre-war era - the 37-mm automatic anti-aircraft gun М1939 (61-К). This product was actively used by the Red Army throughout the Second World War. In the Wehrmacht, which used the captured weapons, it received an index of 3,7 cm Flak 39 (r).

Several types of weapons were developed, which were installed on ships and self-propelled ground vehicles, in particular on the ZSU-57. The standard production of 61-K was discontinued in 1945. In Russia, you can now find it at exhibitions or as monuments.

М1939 continues to be in the ranks of a number of the world's armed forces. Indonesia is one of the "havens" for the Soviet anti-aircraft guns.

Many Marine Corps units use a 1939mm M37 cannon [...] In one exercise, Yonmarkhanlan I [one of the battalions] used a 37mm cannon to paralyze enemy air attacks

- writes the publication Defense Studies.

The relevant materials were posted by the Indonesian ILC.

Comments

[Mountain shooter]

Good barrel, good shell. If you can use it, why not?

[And Makarov]

They apparently produce ammunition themselves. Well, not from the war.

[Mavrikiy]

Touches: camouflage net and red flame extinguisher.

[PN]

The tires are still standing. Is the rubber still dry?

[Dikson]

There is a very humid climate ..))

[Yurahip]

Redeem back to the museum!

[svp67]

What they have and use ... maybe they will agree to change it for something new, and our columns of equipment from the Great Patriotic War at the Victory parades will increase ...

[donavi49]

They are strange guys, they buy from everyone a little, while the old is not written off. To replace the old zoo, they have already purchased 23/35 / 40mm options:

By the way, there is generally fun on MANPADS:
Thunder
Mistral
Starstrick
RBS70 / 2 with Giraffe
Chiron (this is a South Korean MANPADS)
QW-3 is a Chinese MANPADS
Needles of different versions

[Kot_Kuzya]

What? Good weapon. A powerful projectile that knocks down any modern, even heavily armored helicopter. Of course, it is useless against planes, but as an anti-helicopter tool it is still good.

[dgonni]

Author! the designation ZSU-57, as it were, hints at the caliber 57mm, or not?

[Lontus]

Oh, how there was not enough 61-K (and especially ammunition for them) in the troops in the summer of 1941 !!!!
With sufficient saturation, most of the losses could have been avoided and the course of the war could have been radically changed.

[Strashila]

What can I say, Krasmash drives, grandfathers did when they were boys in their time. They did not perform badly in Korea and Vietnam. The author is clearly confusing, this is a 37 mm automatic cannon, in the ZSU-57 it costs 57 mm.

[prior]

The TT pistol is also not a little old, but how did he work in the nineties ...

[pereselenec]

Such automatic cannons are no longer very valuable in the form of air defense, but for work on ground from gantrucks, as the Syrian experience has shown.

[vladimych]

Quote: PN

The tires are still standing. Is the rubber still dry?

She turned to stone.

[geologist]

I saw it in the Vladivostok museum when he was still in the building of the former Lutheran church, near the "Ocean" tavern. Struck by the fact that the staff automatic sight is similar to that installed on the more modern post-war AZP-57. In my opinion, it was designed for a speed of no more than 300 m / s, i.e. subsonic