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155mm M32 L/45

Basically a modernised French Grand Puissance Filoux 155mm with a new 45 calibre barrel and improved carriage. Range firing the standard 44kg shell is 23,200m; the new carriage offers 50 degree traverse and 65 degree elevation. Weight in action is 12,615kg. Around 320 are in service. A twin mount has been fitted to the Los Andes Gunboats and are used in shore fortifications. The Infantería de Marina passed its 155mm guns to the Army during 1939.

A French 75mm Mle 1897 with a new barrel and carriage. Elevation is -10 to +45 degrees with 35 degree traverse, weight is 1100kg and range is about 11300m with a standard 6.20kg shell. There is also an AP shell. About 350 are in use with around 200 more in storage. Last Army pieces to be put into reserve during late 1945. The Navy has purchased 50 for coastal defence. The Infantería de Marina has 152 of these guns.

In 1933 forty of these dual-purpose filed gun and mountain howitzers were purchased from Czechoslovakia. Weight in action is 1,816kg; elevation is -8 to +80 degrees elevation with 8 degrees of traverse. Shell weight is 8kg and range is 16,000m.

A batch of these German field howitzers was brought in 1934 to equip V Division. Another batch brought in 1935 equipped VII Division. In 1941 200 were ordered, these are the basic leFH18 production model but with the incorporation of a muzzle brake, necessitated by improvements in ammunition. In late 1944 another 200 were ordered to replace the last of the 75mm artillery pieces in Army use. New munitions including Armour Piercing and explosive anti-tank have also been procured.