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  2. 15 cm sFH 02 - Wikipedia

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    It was the first artillery piece to use a modern recoil system in the German Army.Some 416 were in service at the beginning of the World War I. [1] Its mobility, which allowed it to be deployed as medium artillery, and fairly heavy shell gave the German army a firepower advantage in the early battles in Belgium and France in 1914 [2] as the French and British armies lacked an equivalent.

  3. List of howitzers - Wikipedia

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    105 mm howitzer M3 United States: World War II 105: M102 howitzer United States: Vietnam, Grenada, Gulf War, Iraq: 105: M618A2 Thailand: Modern 105: 10,5 cm haubits m/10 Sweden: World War I 105: Bofors 10.5 cm howitzer Model 1924 Sweden: World War II 105: 10,5 cm haubits m/40 Sweden: World War II 105: M-56 howitzer Yugoslavia: Cold War 105 ...

  4. Category:World War I howitzers - Wikipedia

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    The term "Howitzer" is used to describe a cannon which fires a shell in a high curving trajectory, as compared to a Gun which fires a shell in a relatively flat trajectory. The precise dividing line between mortars and howitzers varies, and European countries such as Austria referred to long range guns as large as 305 mm as siege mortars which ...

  5. Artillery of World War I - Wikipedia

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    Despite the advent of new technologies like aircraft, machine guns, and armored vehicles, artillery was the primary weapon of land warfare in World War I. Artillery was the principal threat to ground troops in the war and was the main reason for the development of trench warfare.

  6. Howitzer - Wikipedia

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    The howitzer (/ ˈ h aʊ. ɪ t s ər /) is an artillery weapon that falls between a cannon (or field gun) and a mortar.It is generally aimed lower than a mortar but higher than a cannon.

  7. 15 cm sFH 13 - Wikipedia

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    The gun was a development of the previous standard howitzer, the 15 cm sFH 02. Improvements included a longer barrel resulting in better range and a gun shield to protect the crew. Variants were: the original "kurz" (L/14 – 14 calibre short barrel version), the lg. sFH13 with a longer barrel; with minor modifications to simplify wartime ...

  8. Big Bertha (howitzer) - Wikipedia

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    The 42 centimetre kurze Marinekanone 14 L/12 (short naval cannon), or Minenwerfer-Gerät (M-Gerät), popularly known by the nickname Big Bertha, was a German siege howitzer built by Krupp AG in Essen, Germany and fielded by the Imperial German Army from 1914 to 1918.

  9. BL 8-inch howitzer Mk VI – VIII - Wikipedia

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    The howitzers were given the designation 203 H 17 (203 mm, Haupitsi [Finnish for howitzer], 1917) and were first issued to three heavy artillery battalions (1st, 2nd and 3rd), which later were re-organised into six heavy artillery batteries (11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th). The howitzer was well-liked by the Finnish army for its durability.