10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15

August 2023 10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15 HGM 10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15.jpg 300 10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15 at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien. Austria-Hungary Field gun yes 1916–1945 Austria-HungaryNazi GermanyKingdom of ItalySecond Polish Republic World War IWorld War II Škoda Works 1909-1914 Škoda Works 1914–1918 577? Cannone da 105/32 3,030 kg lb on 3.64 m ftin on L/35 Separate loading, cased charge and projectile104 x 580mm R16.1 kg lbozhttp://www.quarryhs.co.uk/ammotable11.html Ammotable 11 www.quarryhs.co.uk 2017-09-03 2015-02-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20150226010317/http://www.quarryhs.co.uk/ammotable11.html dead Italian variant: 105 mm (4.13 in) 3-4 rpm 668 m/s (2,191 ft/s) 12,700 m yd onhttp://www.regioesercito.it/armi/104-32.htm Regio Esercito - Materiale bellico - Cannone da 104/32 2023-03-26 2008-09-25 https://web.archive.org/web/20080925071612/http://www.regioesercito.it/armi/104-32.htm live box trail -10° to +30° 6° The 10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15 was a heavy field gun used by Austria-Hungary in World War I.https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/history/at-kuk-artillery-1.htm Great War Artillery - Austria www.globalsecurity.org 6 August 2023 It was derived from the successful 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze M 14 modified to fire high-velocity 104-mm projectiles. The 10.4 cm Feldkanone M.15 served the same role for the Austro-Hungarian Army as the 10 cm K 14 gun did for the Germans, but was 3 tons heavier and the barrel had to be removed in order to be transported by horse and wagon. Approximately 577 were produced by Škoda and MAVAG. These guns were deployed at all fronts, including Palestine. The M.15 was considered a good artillery piece, but the weight prohibited rapid deployment. The breech used a sliding wedge and they were equipped with spring reuperators and hydraulic recoil.Clelland Charlie 10.4cm Kanone M.15 Landships II http://www.landships.info/landships/artillery_articles/10cm_Kanone_m15.html 6 August 2023 Because the gun was too heavy to be drawn by the usual field artillery team of six horses, for transport it broke down into the two loads, with the barrel being carried on a separate carriage.https://www.qldwarmemorials.com.au/memorial?id=266 Brisbane Grammar School WWI War Trophy 16 September 2015 www.qldwarmemorials.com.au The State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Science) 11 January 2021 28 November 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201128195254/https://www.qldwarmemorials.com.au/memorial?id=266 live An example of one of the transport wagons is preserved at Brisbane Grammar School in Queensland, Australia, which had been taken from the Ottoman Army at the Capture of Jenin in 1918 and was donated to the school in 1921 by Brigadier General Lachlan Chisholm Wilson, a former pupil. The barrel is mounted on its Rohrwagen or transport carriage rather than the gun carriage it would have been fired from. It was restored in 1996 by the South Queensland Logistics Group. Four guns were used by Poland during the Polish-Soviet war.Konstankiewicz, Andrzej (2003). Broń strzelecka i sprzęt artyleryjski formacji polskich i Wojska Polskiego w latach 1914-1939, Lublin. p. 53. 83-227-1944-2. pl Guns captured or turned over to Italy as reparations after World War I were taken into Italian service as the Cannone da 105/32 and were bored out to 105 mm to fit Italian ammunition. 260 M.14 and M.15 guns were recovered by the Italians after the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, of which 70 were scrapped. It was one of the principal Italian long-range guns in World War II and saw service in North Africa, Russia, and Sicily. It also saw use during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. The Italians found that it did not compare favorably to the Canone de 105/28 due to the heavier weight, especially in Ukraine. Four guns were used by the Italian Social Republic in 1943.http://www.italie1935-45.com/RE/photoscopes/photoscopecannone105-32.html photoscopecannone105-32 16 June 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080616180558/http://www.italie1935-45.com/RE/photoscopes/photoscopecannone105-32.html 6 August 2023 16 June 2008 The German army gave captured weapons the designation 10.5cm K 320(i).https://www.axishistory.com/other-aspects/138-equipment/equipment/2242-light-a-medium-artillery Light & Medium Artillery www.axishistory.com 6 August 2023 thumb|left|The ex-Ottoman M.15 barrel on its transport vehicle preserved at Brisbane Grammar School as a war memorial. A rusting 10.4 cm Škoda was found in the Presanella mountains in the year 2000, where it supposed it was dueling an Italian 149/23 during the First World War.http://www.guerrabianca.org/html/artiglieria3.htm# Il grande cannone della Presanella - di Mauro Zattera 2013-09-05 https://archive.today/20130905222712/http://www.guerrabianca.org/html/artiglieria3.htm# 2013-09-05 dead Restauro Cannone Skoda 10.4 https://web.archive.org/web/20131220203527/http://www.trentinograndeguerra.it/context.jsp?ID_LINK=112&area=10&id_context=787 2013-12-20 , Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Provincia autonoma di Trento Found at 3171 meters altitude, the gun came completely out of the glacier in the very warm summer of 2003. Because it was located on a 45 degree slope, the risk of it sliding down was considered too great, so the gun was relocated by lifting it with a Superpuma helicopter. Il recupero del cannone 10.4 Skoda https://archive.today/20120906103323/http://www.museoguerrabianca.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=108&Itemid=188 2012-09-06 , Museo della Guerra Bianca in Adamello References 30em Bibliography Gander, Terry and Chamberlain, Peter. Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945. New York: Doubleday, 1979 0-385-15090-3 Ortner, M. Christian. The Austro-Hungarian Artillery From 1867 to 1918: Technology, Organization, and Tactics. Vienna, Verlag Militaria, 2007 978-3-902526-13-7 Regio Esercito - Materiale bellico - Cannone da 104/32 Category:World War I guns Category:World War I artillery of Italy Category:World War I artillery of Austria-Hungary Category:104 mm artillery