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SURVIVING GUN FILE (# 919)
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Germany
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Light artillery
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Contributor :
Michael6367      http://www.doughboysofnyc.com/
Ralph Lovett      http://www.lovettartillery.com       |
Location :
USA Derby, CY VFW building
Coordinates :
Lat : 41.33060 / Long : -73.08920
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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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That rare gun, losing competitor of the famous Rheinmetall 10cm lFH 16 was built in a bit more than 250 items. |
The 10,5cm lFH kp 16 does not have axle tree seats and has a different barrel with a different pattern of steel bands in contrast to the more common 10,5cm lFH 16 |
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Historic and technical information
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Denomination :     10.5cm lFH Kp 16 | Origin :       ( Krupp)           | ||||
Historic context :
In 1916, the call for a re-engineering of the light field howitzer '10 lFH 98/09' generated a Rheinmetall bid, whose '10 cm lFH 16' will be the chosen one, and a Krupp bid, hoping to re-gain shares of the German Foot Artillery market. It is worth reminding the great success of Rheinmetall in that segment, since that company's technologies were imposed for the modernization of the obsolete '77 FK 96 a/A' from Krupp to transform it into the famous '77 FK 96 n/A', and will later succesfully modernize this one too into the '77 FK 16'. |
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