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Germany
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Light artillery
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Contributor :
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Location :
Finland
Hameenlinna
Finnish Artillery Museum
Coordinates :
Lat : 61.00500 / Long : 24.45780
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General comments on this surviving gun :
Identical items in the same location :
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One of the few surviving guns of that type is presented in this rich museum.
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That specific gun served in the Finnish Army during the second world war. At that time Finland was a IIIrd Reich allied, and probably received some obsolete equipment...
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Historic and technical information
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Denomination :    
10cm K 14
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Origin :    
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Krupp)
         
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Historic context :
In 1911, the APK (German Artillery Test Commission)requires new expectations for an evolution of the 10 cm K 04. Rheinmetall and Krupp both present a gun, and once again it's Krupp who wins with its design in 1914.
This '10 cm K 14' differs a lot from the 1904 previous gun. An elongated tube (35 calibres instead of 30), a modified recoil system, a new breech, a firing platform to allow a rapid direction aiming upon 360 degres, and two separate elevation aiming systems, one for the flat trajectories, and the other one for the indirect fire. Finally, a shield is now protecting the crew, very welcome against the counter-battery shelling.
As a consequence of the longer tube, the K04 range performance was kept but with a heavier shell. This 10cm K 14 prooved to be an excellent weapon on the battlefields, polyvalent but more and more specialised in the counter-battery fire. On the other hand, the expectations of getting this weapon abilities in anti-aircraft fire were never met.
724 such guns '10 cm K 14' ('K' = Kanone = Gun) were manudactured by Krupp during the war. 368 were still in service in November 1918. This gun was still in use in the IIIrd Reich armies during WW2.
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Technical data :
- Complete description : 10cm gun M 1914
- Design year : 1914
- Calibre : 105.20 mm
- Weight in firing position : 2820 kg
- Weight for transportation : 3530 kg - single load
- Tube length in calibres : 35.00 (total tube length)
- Grooves : 32
- Projectile weight : 16 a 18.75 kg
- Initial speed : 583 to 585 m/s
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- Range : 11400 to 13100 m
- Elevation range : -5 to +45 degrees
- Direction range : 6 degrees total range
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Sources
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German Artillery of World War One           Herbert Jager                   Crowood   2001
 
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http://www.lovettartillery.com/      Ralph Lovett                    
 
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Das Geraet der Schweren Artillerie vor, in und nach der Weltkrieg       Herman Schirmer                   Bernard und Graefe, Berlin   1937
 
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