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  2. Obusier de 155 mm C modèle 1881 - Wikipedia

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    Obusier de 155 mm C mle 1890 Baquet - This field howitzer used the same barrel as the mle 1881 on a new box trail carriage that had two wooden spoked wheels with steel rims and was designed to be light enough to be horse-drawn in one piece. The carriage was split into two parts, a stationary lower part which supported the weapon and a sliding ...

  3. Obusier de 155 mm C modèle 1890 - Wikipedia

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    The mle 1890 is a transitional piece and was a combination of both old and new ideas. It was a breech loaded howitzer with a steel barrel and a de Bange obturator designed by Colonel Charles Ragon de Bange which used separate loading bagged charges and projectiles. The barrel was the same as used on the earlier Obusier de 155 mm C modele 1881 ...

  4. Obusier de 120 mm C modèle 1890 - Wikipedia

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    Development of the modèle 1890 began in 1886 at the Atelier-de-précision in Paris, following a request by the French Army for a mobile howitzer capable of high angle fire. Adopted in 1890, it was assigned to heavy field artillery regiments ( artillerie lourde de campagne ) and to artillery regiments ( régiments d'artillerie à pied ) of the ...

  5. Howitzer - Wikipedia

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    The heaviest (later called "medium siege howitzers") had calibers between 200 mm and 220 mm and fired shells that weighed about 100 kilograms (220 pounds). [22] During the 1880s, a third type of siege howitzer was added to inventories of a number of European armies.

  6. Obice da 280 - Wikipedia

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    The Obice da 280 was an Italian coastal defense and siege howitzer designed in 1884 by the British Armstrong firm and produced under license by the Ansaldo company during the late 1800s. It was used during both the First and Second World Wars .

  7. Canon de 120 mm modèle 1878 - Wikipedia

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    Armata wz. 1878/09/31 and wz. 1878/10/31 – This conversion carried out in 1931 by the Starachowice Arsenal in Poland involved removing the barrel from the original carriage and mounting them on the carriages of 152 mm howitzer M1909 and 152 mm howitzer M1910 captured during the Polish-Soviet War. The recoil mechanism, lower height and ...

  8. List of howitzers - Wikipedia

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    122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30) Soviet Union: World War II 122: 122 mm howitzer 2A18 (D-30) Soviet Union: 122: D-74 122 mm field gun Soviet Union: Cold War 122: Type 54 howitzer People's Republic of China: Cold War 122: Type 83 howitzer People's Republic of China: Modern 122: Type 60 howitzer People's Republic of China: Cold War, modern 122: HM-40 ...

  9. List of artillery by name - Wikipedia

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    152 mm howitzer BL 6-inch 30 cwt howitzer United Kingdom: 152 mm howitzer 6-inch howitzer M1908 United States: 152 mm howitzer 6-inch siege gun M1877 Russian Empire: 152 mm siege gun 6-inch siege gun M1904 Russian Empire: 152 mm siege gun 7 cm Gebirgsgeschütz M 99 Austria-Hungary: 70 mm mountain gun 7.5 cm FK 7M85 Nazi Germany: 75 mm field gun