Field Artillery Types
Canon de 75mm M1934 Mountain Gun
A 75mm mountain gun based on a Bofors design. This was produced by Cockerill with a carriage with pneumatic tires allowing motorized transport. The gun could be tractor drawn or carried in 5 loads.
Projectile : 6.59kg
MV : 455m/s
Range : 9,300m
Weight : 515kg
Elevation : -5 to +50
Traverse: 8-12deg.
ROF : 18rpm
75mm FG TR
Regimental guns from the great war, retrofitted with new rubber tires.
Projectile : 6.52kg
MV : 540m/s
Range : 9,900m
ROF : 12rpm
105mm FG Schneider M1913
A widely used great war field gun. The production model had a standard box tailed carriage, but in the late 1920s split tail Polish carriages became available and have been adopted with pneumatic tires.
Projectile : 15.7kg
MV : 550m/s
Range : 12,000m
Weight : 2.3/2.5tonnes
Elevation : -5 to +37
Traverse: 6deg.
ROF : 2rpm
[SIZE=1]Descriptions from KaiserKirk[/SIZE]
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
Sneak home and pray you'll never know
The hell where youth and laughter go.
-Siegfried Sassoon
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