26 cm RK L/22

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26 cm RK L/22
The 26 cm RK L/22 M1870
Type
Place of originKingdom of Prussia
Service history
Used by
Production history
DesignerKrupp
Designed1869
ManufacturerKrupp
Produced1870
Specifications
Mass22,000 kg
Length5,720 mm (L/22)

Caliber
260.0 mm (Austrian)

262.5 mm (German)

Breechhorizontal sliding wedge
Muzzle velocity
  • 428 m/s. (Austrian in 1880)
  • 490 m/s (German)

The 26 cm RK L/22 was a gun from a family of Krupp naval artillery guns designed in the late 1860s. The gun was used on warships of the Imperial German Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy. During World War I, it was used as coastal artillery by the Ottoman Empire.