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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 ...
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Unlike the earlier Canon de 155 mm L modèle 1877, the mle 1881 was designed for short range high angle fire instead of long-range low angle fire.The mle 1881 used a distinctive looking gooseneck shaped box trail, was a breech loaded howitzer with a steel barrel and a de Bange obturator which used separate loading bagged charges and projectiles.
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 ...
The quick-firing howitzer offered the potential for practical indirect fire. Traditional howitzers had been employed to engage targets outside their line of fire, but were very slow to aim and reload. Quick-firing weapons were capable of a heavy indirect bombardment, and this was the main mode of their employment during the 20th century.
The 28 cm howitzer L/10 (二十八糎榴弾砲, nijūhachi-senchi ryūdanhō) was a Japanese coastal and siege howitzer. It was developed by Armstrong before 1892 and saw service in the Russo-Japanese War during the siege of Port Arthur and the Second Sino-Japanese War .
Mortier de 220 mm modèle 1880 France: World War I 220: Skoda 220 mm howitzer Czechoslovakia: World War II 229: 9-inch mortar M1877 Russian Empire: World War I 233: BL 9.2 inch Howitzer United Kingdom: World War I 240: 24 cm Mörser M 98 Austria-Hungary: pre-World War I 240: 24 cm Haubitze 39 Czechoslovakia: World War II 240: Canon de 24 C ...
BL 9.2 inch howitzer World War I siege howitzer; BL 12 inch howitzer World War I siege howitzer; BL 15 inch howitzer World War I siege howitzer; RML 6.3 inch howitzer Second Boer War howitzer; FH-70 155 mm gun; M777 155 mm howitzer; L118 light gun 105 mm; M119; Self-propelled artillery. FV433 Abbot SPG self-propelled 105 mm gun; AS-90 155 mm ...