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SURVIVING GUN FILE (# 799)
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Austro-Hungaria
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Heavy artillery
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Contributor :
Association 14/18      http://www.association14-18.org/
Massimo (Flickr) Foti            |
Location :
Romania Bucarest Ferdinand the 1st military museum
Coordinates :
Lat : 44.44160 / Long : 26.07610
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General comments on this surviving gun :
Identical items in the same location :
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Items covered by this file : 1 |
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This weapon has been captured by the Rumanian army in 1917 |
The Bucarest museum mistakenly named this howitzer 15cm M16 |
Unknown markings |
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Historic and technical information
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Denomination :     15cm M 15 FH | Origin :       ( Skoda)           | ||||
Historic context :
After several months of position war, the Austro-Hungarian armies fighting on different fronts requested an increase of the range of the heavy field guns and howitzers to be able to answer to the similar Italian and Russian weapons. The '15cm M 1915 AutoHaubtitze' was therefore initially designed, on the base of an existing 15 cm fortress turret howitzer barrel, as an improvement of the reglementary 15cm M14 howitzer, in parallel with the developments that would lead to the 15cm M15 gun. The new howitzer was then taking advantage of an elongated 20 calibres barrel for a longer range as requested |
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