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A Mountain artillery unit with a 65/17 modello 13 gun on Monte Padon firing at Austrian positions on the Sass di Mezdi German Datasheet. The 65 mm gun was first accepted into service with Italian mountain troops in 1913, and it served with them throughout World War I. It was used in the Fiat 2000 heavy tank which saw action in Libya ...
76 mm mountain gun M48 Yugoslavia: Cold War: 76.2: RML 7 pounder Mountain Gun United Kingdom: Anglo-Zulu War / Second Boer War: 76.2: 76-mm mountain gun M1904 Russia: World War I 76.2: 76 mm mountain gun M1909 Russia / Soviet Union: World War I / World War II 76.2: 76-mm mountain gun M1938 Soviet Union: World War II 80: De Bange 80 mm cannon ...
Beretta M1934 [2] - This weapon had an amazingly long service life in the Italian army only being replaced in 1981. Beretta 92S [3] - Adopted in 1981 to replace obsolete M1934. Later variant Beretta M9 similarly replaced the long lived M1911 pistol in US service.
The OTO Melara 105 mm Mod 56 began life in the 1950s to meet the requirement for a modern light-weight howitzer that could be used by the Italian Army's Alpini brigades mountain artillery regiments. That it remained in service with those units a full half century after its introduction is a testament to the gun's quality.
The Cannone da 75/27 modello 11 was a French-designed field gun produced in Italy prior to World War I. [5] It was introduced in 1912, designed by Joseph-Albert Deport. It was taken into service by Italy for use with its Alpine and cavalry troops going into World War I, and was built there in large numbers. The gun was designed with two notable ...
The modernized guns went on to serve in World War II. [9] The Cannone da 75/27 modello 12 was a modello 06 modified for greater elevation (-12° to +18° 30') and lighter weight (only 900 kg (2,000 lb)). Only small numbers were produced for the cavalry divisions of the Royal Italian Army.
The regiment consisted of a command, a command unit, the Mountain Artillery Group "Aosta" with 75/13 mod. 15 mountain guns in Saluzzo, the Mountain Artillery Group "Susa" with 100/17 mod. 14 howitzers in Susa, the Mountain Artillery Group "Pinerolo" with M30 107mm mortars in Susa, and a light anti-aircraft group with 40/56 anti-aircraft ...
Cannone da 75/32 modello 37 on the Russian front. The newly born 75/18 howitzers already presented major ballistic limitations, given that their maximum range was about 9 km, when the divisional artillery of the other European armies were not only of greater caliber, but also had significantly higher ranges, therefore the Arms and Ammunition Technical Service requested that a new elongated gun ...