PaK 40 75mm ATG HE round
Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2025 3:48 am
Would someone advise on what type of HE round this gun used, and how effective it was against soft targets.
I can say that in general way more HE rounds were used than AP for the Paks (if that helps). Once seen a German report about that in the archives, not sure if I could find it again.
When it comes to high hitratios (if the concern is that they seem to hit 16 out of 29 shots), then I can say that AT guns seem to consume (in tonnage) one full "burst"/RoF worth of Ammo per "shot"/FPE. So the actual hitratios are way smaller.
You can find some of that info in this Post, not sure if it's all (still) correct and applicable to all scenarios (attack/defence) in the same way.