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SURVIVING GUN FILE (# 102)



Germany	7.7cm GebirgsKanone L/17 M15				Mountain artillery

Contributor : Charlie Clelland Georges Mehay Lien vers post du blog		Location : Australia Roma, QLD RSL Coordinates : Lat : -26.57889 / Long : 148.78607		General comments on this surviving gun : Identical items in the same location : 1 Items covered by this file : 1


The gun before its restoration		Impressive restoration work. This very rare gun seems brand new ! Breech markings 'system Erhrardt - Nr29'		Captured by the 5th Light Horse Regiment on September 2, 1918 in Amman. This guns was then in service in the Turkish Army

Historic and technical information
Denomination : 7.7cm GebK L/17 M15			Origin : ( RheinMetall)
Historic context : RheinMetall, newcomer in the mountain guns market, designed in 1915 this 7.7cm GebirgsKanone M15' that could be disassembled into 6 separated loads. The unusual 77 mm calibre(other German mountain guns usually used 75 mm projectiles) was probably chosen mainly to fire the classical fieldgun shells. In service within the German Army, it was gradually replaced by the Austrian Skoda mountain guns that were superior. The guns still available were then given to Turkey where they continued the war inside 4 batteries. This gun was sometimes named '7.7cm GebirgsKanone M17'.			Technical data : Complete description : *7.7cm M 15 mountain gun* Design year : 1915 Calibre : 77.00 mm Weight in firing position : 555 kg Weight for transportation : Same, in 6 separated loads Tube length in calibres : 17.00 Grooves : 0 Projectile weight : 6.85 kg Initial speed : 310 m/s Fire rate : Range : 5900 m Elevation range : -7 to +35 degrees Direction range : 5 degrees total range
Sources
German Artillery of World War One Herbert Jager Crowood 2001 Wikipedia http://fr.wikipedia.org/