10 cm houfnice vz. 28

10 cm houfnice vz. 28 File:D 50-4 Nr. 317 (j) (1941-08-01), 10 cm Feldhaubitze 317 (j) (Bild).png 300 Czechoslovakia Howitzer yes yes 1928–1945 Nazi GermanyYugoslavia World War II Škoda Works 1928 Škoda Works 1928 20?Light and medium field artillery Chamberlain Peter 1975 11 Arco Gander, Terry 0668038209 New York 2067331 Combat: 1798 kg lb onTravel: 3509 kg lb on 2.5 m ft on L/25 6-8 14 kg lboz on 10 cm in on 450 m/s ft/s on 10.7 km mi on Horizontal sliding-wedge Hydro-pneumatic Two-wheeled box trail -8° to +80° 11° The 10 cm houfnice vz. 28 (howitzer model 28) was a Czech howitzer used in limited numbers by the Yugoslav Army during World War II. The Yugoslavs ordered twenty houfnice vz. 28 guns which they referred to as the 100 mm M.28. Guns captured from Yugoslavia by the Germans were given the designation 10 cm leFH 317(j). Design & history The origins of the houfnice vz. 28 began in 1928 at the Škoda Works in Plzeň. The design attempted to combine the howitzer and mountain gun roles into one weapon. The houfnice vz. 28 combined a two-wheeled box trail carriage, horizontal sliding-wedge breech, Hydro-pneumatic recoil system and high angle elevation. For the mountain gun role it could be broken down into three pieces for transport, a feature also shared by the contemporary 8 cm kanon vz. 28 and the later 8 cm kanon vz. 30 and 10 cm houfnice vz. 30 guns. The Czech Army declined to adopt the houfnice vz. 28, but ordered its successor the houfnice vz. 30 in larger numbers. The vz. 30 and vz. 28 shared a similar configuration, dimensions and their performance was largely the same. Notes References Peter Chamberlain and Terry Gander: Light and Medium field Artillery. New York. Arco Publishing. 1977. 0-668-03820-9 External links https://web.archive.org/web/20071202052427/http://warandgame.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/skoda-765-mm-kanon-vz-30-and-100-mm-houfnice-vz-30/ Category:World War II artillery of Germany Category:World War II howitzers Category:Artillery of Czechoslovakia Category:100 mm artillery Category:Military equipment introduced in the 1920s