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The Abus gun was an early form of howitzer in the Ottoman Empire. [18] In 1758, the Russian Empire introduced a specific type of howitzer (or rather gun-howitzer), with a conical chamber, called a licorne, which remained in service for the next 100 years. [19]
152 mm towed gun-howitzer M1955 (D-20) Soviet Union: Vietnam War, Six-day War, Iran-Iraq War, Syrian Civil War 152: 152 mm towed gun-howitzer M1955 (D-20), M84 NORA field gun Yugoslavia: 152: Type 66 howitzer People's Republic of China: Cold War, modern 152: Type 83 howitzer People's Republic of China: Modern 152: 152 H 88 Finland: Cold War 155
When necessary, the gun could be manhandled by its artillery crew. In 1944, the Artillery Regiment of a typical Russian Rifle Division was armed with 36 122mm Howitzers, along with 72 76.2mm ZiS-3 field guns. [14] The gun was eventually replaced by the 122-mm howitzer D-30 after the latter was adopted for service in 1960. A small number of ...
The 240 mm howitzer M1 was designed together with the longer-ranged 8-inch gun M1, and they shared a related carriage. [3] While use of the 8-inch gun was limited due to excessive bore wear and poor accuracy, the howitzer saw considerable action during World War II in Europe due to its effectiveness against difficult targets such as heavy ...
The M1910/30 was a divisional level howitzer. According to the organization of 1939, each rifle division had two artillery regiments - light regiment (a battalion of 76 mm guns; two mixed battalions with one battery of 76 mm guns and two batteries of 122 mm howitzers) and howitzer regiment (a battalion of 122 mm howitzers and a battalion of 152 mm howitzers), giving 28 122 mm howitzers per ...
The M1841 mountain howitzer was a mountain gun used by the United States Army during the mid-nineteenth century, from 1837 to about 1870. It saw service during the Mexican–American War of 1847–1848, the American Indian Wars, and during the American Civil War, 1861–1865 (primarily in the more rugged western theaters).
A howitzer is a short cannon, placed at a steep angle of descent, used to fire at relatively high trajectories. The cannons can fire up to four rounds per minute, according to the U.S. Army.
The T3 was standardized as the 8-inch howitzer M1 in 1940. Like the British 8-inch howitzer of the First World War (and most other large artillery), the M1 uses a Welin screw for its breech. The carriage was the same as used for the US 155 mm gun and was also adopted by the British for their BL 7.2-inch howitzer.