8 cm PL kanon vz. 37

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|name=8 cm kanon PL vz. 37

|image=8cmPLKvz37 02.jpg

|image_size=300px

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|origin=Czechoslovakia

|type=Anti-aircraft gun

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|is_explosive=yes

|is_artillery=yes

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|service=1937-1945

|used_by=Czechoslovakia
Nazi Germany

|wars=World War II

|designer=Škoda Works

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|manufacturer=Škoda Works

|production_date=1937-39?

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|weight={{convert|3800|kg|lb}}

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|part_length={{convert|4.04|m|ftin}} L/52.8

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|cartridge=76.5 x 723mm R, rim dia.100mm{{Cite web|url=http://www.quarryhs.co.uk/ammotable9.html|title=77-77 MM CALIBRE CARTRIDGES|website=quarryhs.co.uk|access-date=2017-09-08|archive-date=17 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150117004159/http://www.quarryhs.co.uk/ammotable9.html|url-status=dead}}

|cartridge_weight={{convert|8|kg|lb}}

|caliber={{convert|76.5|mm|in}}

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|rate=10-15 rpm

|velocity={{convert|800|m/s|ft/s}}

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|max_range={{convert|11470|m|ft}} vertical ceiling

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|elevation=0° to +85°

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The 8 cm kanon PL vz. 37 (Anti-aircraft Gun Model 37) was a Czech anti-aircraft gun used during the Second World War. Those weapons captured after the German occupation of Czechoslovakia in March 1939 were taken into Wehrmacht service as the 7.65 cm Flak M 37(t). 97 were in service during the Munich Crisis in September 1938 of which Slovakia seized one when it declared independence six months later.{{cite web|url=http://www.palba.cz/viewtopic.php?t=384|title=Statistické údaje výzbroje Čs. armády v roce 1938|date=24 March 2005|access-date=2009-05-23}}