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BetacommandBot ( talk) 17:07, 29 November 2007 (UTC) reply

I believe that this issue is now resolved please let me know what to do if it is not -- Rbaal 22:44, 1 December 2007 (UTC) reply

The text has a very poor quality. Some native English speaker should improve it. Even I as a German can tell that it's crappy. I did a few minor improvements today before logging in, but the article needs many more. Lastdingo ( talk) 20:04, 19 May 2010 (UTC) reply

I revised the lethality claim for the HE munition down (comparable, if not superior" to "almost comparable"). There's no historical source for the original claim anyway. My short justification was "2.7 kg mortar bomb impacting flatly after 32° launch is rather weaker than a 5.45 kg HE shell impacting near-vertical after 70° launch AND thicker wall=more fragments mass" Furthermore, I'd like to point out that shells dropping after a 70° shot impact near-vertically and provide frag effect in all directions almost evenly. Flatter trajectories lied to a fragmentation pattern with much effect to forward/sides and little to other directions. example http://nigelef.tripod.com/wt_of_fire.htm Mortar ammunition is usually efficient because of high angle firing, but this gun was limited by the anti-tank carriage design (from 5 cm Pak 38) and had thus not even the full lower elevation group; less than the about 43° needed to exploit the full range potential. Much less than the 70° of the most common infantry gun (7,5 cm leIG 18). The previous author's idea (that the PAW's HE shot may be comparable or superior to a 7.5 cm IG HE shot because of a wall thickness issue) is impossible to support, not the least because the latter weighs twice as much and thick shell walls turn into fragments (and are thus not much of a disadvantage if there's still enough explosive inside). Lastdingo ( talk) 06:13, 4 December 2013 (UTC) reply

Correcting myself: Just saw in a book that the 8 cm (81.4 mm) HE shot weighed 4.46 kg (HEAT was 2.7 kg). Still same result. It weighs substantially less than 5.45 kg and usually impacts at a worse angle. Lastdingo ( talk) 06:50, 4 December 2013 (UTC) reply