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Austro-Hungaria

7cm M 75 GebirgsKanone

Mountain artillery

Contributor :
Massimo (Flickr) Foti     
     
     
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Location :
Austria
Vienna
Heeresgeschichtliches Museum
Coordinates : Lat : 48.18550 / Long : 16.38810
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Items covered by this file : 1

Front view, sliding block type breech


Historic and technical information
Denomination :     7cm M 75 GebK Origin :       ( Arsenaux d'état)          

Historic context :

The geopolitical localization of Austro-Hungary made it needed to be equipped with weapons adapted to the mountain fights, for defensive missions on its own territory as well as external operations in surrounding countries. As most of the European nations, it designed very light guns and howitzers, easily transportable and well adapted to this kind of landscape

This nation who was to be one of the best and prolific designer of such weapons nevertheless started the competition with a gun largely inferior to the ones of the other nations. The small 7cm GebirgsGeschutz M75 bronze barrelled mountain gun, dismountable in 2 separate loads for transportation, was firing too weak projectiles to too short a range.

It was replaced in 1899 by a better mountain gun, then during the whole war by several increasingly performing mountain artillery weapons, but some of these old obsolete guns did participate to the Great War from 1914.

Technical data :

  • Complete description : 7 cm mountain gun M 1875
  • Design year : 1875
  • Calibre : 66.00 mm
  • Weight in firing position : 194 kg
  • Weight for transportation : 2 separate loads
  • Tube length in calibres : 15.10
  • Grooves : 0 unknown
  • Projectile weight : 2.9 kg (obus explosif) - 3.2 kg (shrapnell)
  • Initial speed : 289 m/s
  • Fire rate :
  • Range : 3400 m (high explosive) - 1875 m (shrapnell)
  • Elevation range : -10 to +24 degrees
  • Direction range : none


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