B-11 recoilless rifle

The B-11 recoilless rifle (It is also known as RG107)^[1] is a Soviet 107 mm smoothbore recoilless gun. It entered service in 1954,^[2] and was typically towed by a 6x6 ZIL-157 truck or a UAZ 4x4 truck.^[3][4]

B-11 recoilless gun used by Polish Armed Forces.

Designed by KB Mashinostroyeniya (KBM), Kolomna.

It is fitted using a PBO-4 sight which has a 5.5x zoom direct fire sight and a 2.5x zoom sight for indirect fire.

Specifications

B-11 recoilless rifle in Batey ha-Osef Museum, Israel.

• Crew: 5
• Calibre: 107 mm (4.21 in)
• Weight: 304.8 kg (672 lb)
• Length: 3.56 m (11.67 ft) (travel position)
• Barrel length: 3.383 m (11 ft)
• Height: 1.19 m (3.90 ft) (firing position). 0.9 m (3 ft) (travel)
• Traverse: 35 degrees in each direction
• Elevation: -10/+45
• Rate of fire: 6 rounds per minute

Ammunition

• BK-883 - HEAT.
  Projectile 7.51 kg (16.5 lb).
  Complete round 12.5 kg (27.5 lb).
  Warhead 1.06 kg (2.3 lb) of RDX/Aluminium.
  GK-2 PIBD fuze.
  Range: 450 m (490 yd) (effective) 1,400 m (1,530 yd) (max).
  Penetration 381 mm (15 in).
  Muzzle velocity
• O-883A - FRAG-HE.
  Projectile 8.5 kg (19 lb).
  Complete round 13.5 kg (30 lb).
  Warhead 2.088 kg (4.6 lb) Amatol 80/20.
  GK-2 PIBD fuze.
  Muzzle velocity: 375 m/s (1,230 ft/s).
  Range: 1,300 m (1,420 yd) (direct) 6,650 m (7,270 yd) (indirect)

Users

Current users

•  Algeria: 60 as of 2016^[update][5]
•  Angola^[6]
•  Cambodia^[7]
•  Ethiopia^[8]
•  Iran^[9]
•  Laos^[10]
•  North Korea
•  Syria
•  Vietnam

Former users

•  Soviet Union
•  Bulgaria
•  China
•  East Germany
•  Egypt^[11]
•  Indonesia^[12]
•  Iraq^[13]
•  Nigeria: some used during Biafran War^[14]
•  North Vietnam^[15]
•  Poland
•  Somalia
•  Romania

See also

• B-10 recoilless rifle

References

• International Institute for Strategic Studies (February 2016). The Military Balance 2016. Vol. 116. Routlegde. ISBN 9781857438352.

1. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2019-05-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
2. Foss, Christopher F. (1981). Artillery of the world (U.S. ed.). New York: Scribner. ISBN 9780684167220. Retrieved 14 October 2014.
3. Rottman, Gordon L. (20 October 2013). The Big Book of Gun Trivia: Everything you want to know, don't want to know, and don't know you need to know. ISBN 9781782009504. Archived from the original on 2018-08-16. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
4. Krauthammer, Theodor (February 2008). Modern Protective Structures. ISBN 9781420015423. Archived from the original on 2018-08-15. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
5. Military Balance 2016, p. 320.
6. Military Balance 2016, p. 429.
7. Military Balance 2016, p. 239.
8. Military Balance 2016, p. 445.
9. Military Balance 2016, p. 328.
10. Military Balance 2016, p. 271.
11. McNab, Chris (2018). Sagger Anti-Tank Missile vs M60 Main Battle Tank: Yom Kippur War 1973. Duel 84. Osprey Publishing. p. 44. ISBN 9781472825773.
12. Pertahanan Strategis, Lembaga Kajian (1975). "Latihan Menembak Senjata STTB oleh Yon 144 di Lahat". Facebook (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2022-12-25.
13. Rottman, Gordon L. (1993). Armies of the Gulf War. Elite 45. Osprey Publishing. p. 49. ISBN 9781855322776.
14. Jowett, Philip (2016). Modern African Wars (5): The Nigerian-Biafran War 1967-70. Oxford: Osprey Publishing Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1472816092.
15. Ezell, Edward Clinton (1988). Personal firepower. The Illustrated history of the Vietnam War 15. Bantam Books. pp. 142-143. OCLC 1036801376.

External links

• https://web.archive.org/web/20110911042921/http://www.bratishka.ru/archiv/2004/7/2004_7_8.php (in Russian)