26 cm RK L/22

26 cm RK L/22
The 26 cm RK L/22 M1870
Type
Place of originKingdom of Prussia
Service history
Used by
Production history
DesignerKrupp
Designed1869[1]
ManufacturerKrupp
Produced1870
Specifications
Mass22,000 kg[2]
Length5,720 mm[3] (L/22)

Caliber
260.0 mm[4] (Austrian)

262.5 mm[4] (German)

Breechhorizontal sliding wedge
Muzzle velocity
  • 428 m/s.[5] (Austrian in 1880)
  • 490 m/s[4] (German)

The 26 cm RK L/22 was a gun from a family of Krupp naval artillery guns designed in the late 1860s. The gun was used on warships of the Imperial German Navy and the Austro-Hungarian Navy. During World War I, it was used as coastal artillery by the Ottoman Empire.

  1. ^ Von Müller 1879, p. 98.
  2. ^ Von Müller 1879, p. 289.
  3. ^ Von Müller 1879, p. 288.
  4. ^ a b c Von Müller 1879, p. 163.
  5. ^ Almanach 1880, p. 130.