D-44 85mm divisional gun
You’re facing the Soviet 85-mm divisional field gun known as the D-44, a weapon designed for the last stage of World War II. Work on its design began in 1943 at the design bureau of No. 9 factory “Uralmash,” and production started in 1944. The D-44 was built to replace the earlier 76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3), and it carried the GRAU code 52-P-367. On this gun’s battlefield logic, the barrel—developed from the armament used on the T-34-85—was capable of firing 20 to 25 high-explosive, armor-piercing, and HEAT projectiles per minute. Among its ammunition, the O-365K high-explosive round weighed 9.5 kilograms and contained 741 grams of TNT as its bursting charge. …
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