In Service: 1944 to 1945
                    
                    
                    
                    Manufacturer: Mauser
                    Number built:
                    
                    
                    
                    Type: Maschinenkanone
                    
                    
Calibre: 30 mm
                    
Length: 1.630 mm
                    
Weight: 75 kg
                    
Rate of fire: 1,300 rounds per minute
                    
Muzzle velocity: 1,000 m/s
                    
Effective range: m
                    
Variants: 
                    20 mm MG 213/20
                    30 mm MK 213/30
                    
                    Other: Armaments
                    Articles: 
                    
                    
                    
                    The 30 mm MK 213/30 (Maschinenkanone 213/30) was a machine 
                    cannon designed and produced by 
Mauser 
                    Werke AG in 1944 and 1945. At the same time the 
20 
                    mm MG 213/20 (Maschinengewehr 213/20) version was the 
                    designed. However neither variant became operational, but 
                    the French and British built their own copies of the gun. 
                    French version DEFA 540 and British version Aden 3M. 
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    
                    The Warplanes of the Third Reich.
                    ISBN-10: 0385057822
                    
                    Flying Guns World War II.
                    ISBN-10: 1840372273
                    
                    German Aircraft Guns WW I WW II.
                    ISBN-10: 091196410X
                    
                    For a complete list of 
sources