www.passioncompassion1418.com
|
SURVIVING GUN FILE (# 165)
|
Austro-Hungaria
|
|
Trench artillery
|
|||
Contributor :
Bernard Plumier      http://www.passioncompassion1418.com
            |
Location :
Belgium Brussels Musée Royal de l'Armée
Coordinates :
Lat : 50.84260 / Long : 4.39380
|
General comments on this surviving gun :
Identical items in the same location :
1
Items covered by this file : 1 |
|||
The mortar is equipped with the 50 cm tube elongation. Breech markings : '12cm M16 A LMW - Nr147' |
This mortar is mistakenly identified as a French gun by the museum, probably confused by the Brand & L'Huillier AG markings, having nothing to see with the French Brandt. |
||||
Historic and technical information
|
|||||
Denomination :     12cm luft MW M16 | Origin :       ( Austria)             ( Brand und L'Huillier )             ( Industrie privée Austro-Hongroise ) | ||||
Historic context :
The Austro-Hungarian company 'Austria Metal Works', in Brno, had proposed in September 1915 a 8cm pneumatic mortar prototype that had been refused by the Military Technical Commission in favour of the German 15cm M MW mortar. In October the same year, the same company proposed again a new model with far better performances, that impressed with the almost 1km range obtained during the tests held in November. |
Technical data :
|
||||
Sources
|
|||||