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SURVIVING GUN FILE (# 1456)
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SURVIVING GUN FILE (# 1456)
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 Russia
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 Trench artillery
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Contributor :
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Location :
Russia St Petersburg Artillery Museum
Coordinates :
Lat : 59.95560 / Long : 30.31530
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General comments on this surviving gun :
Charlie Clelland comments : It was developed by Obuchov and Krupp in 1885 using Krupp M1881 15cm Morser as a starting point. There's also one of these mortars in the St Petersburg museum with a wheeled carriage. I think they were used in WW1 - I'll have to check Shirokorad's encyclopedia
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Strange weapon looking like a scale model of a heavy gun |
Notice the relatively thin walls of the barrel, typical of a trench mortar |
View on the breech very similar to the one of a conventional gun |
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Historic and technical information
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| Denomination : 152mm Bombomet Obuchov |
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Obuchov)
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Historic context :
In 1916 the Obuchov plants produced, in collaboration with Krupp and on the base of the Krupp M1881 15cm morser, a '6 inches bomb launcher' designed to fire conventionnal artillery shells of the same caliber (152 mm). This small but heavy weapon had no recoil recovery system, but its rifle barrel was a breech-loader just like a field gun device. |
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