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Lieutenant-colonel Joseph Albert Deport, the developer of the 75 mm field gun Rifling of a 75 modèle 1897 Range setting device. The French 75 mm field gun is a quick-firing field artillery piece adopted in March 1898. Its official French designation was: Matériel de 75 mm Mle 1897.
The US decided early in World War I to switch from 3-inch (76 mm) to 75 mm calibre for its field guns. Its preferred gun for re-equipment was the French 75 mm Model of 1897, but early attempts to produce it in the US using US commercial mass-production techniques failed, partly due to delays in obtaining necessary French plans, and then their being incomplete or inaccurate, and partly because ...
French 75 provided mobility and rapid fire but not enough range for the new war. The long barrel recoil technology incorporated by the French into the 75 mm field gun revolutionized artillery and made previous artillery obsolete. However, early in the war, the French over-relied on this gun under the assumption that it was the only artillery ...
There were 480 American 75 mm field gun batteries (over 1,900 guns) on the battlefields of France in November 1918. [4] American industry began building the mle 1897 in the spring of 1918, but only 143 American-built guns had been shipped to France by 11 November 1918, and most American batteries used French-built 75s.
Schneider 75mm M1915; ... Machine gun. Gatling gun (Pre World War 1) Field guns. Krupp 50mm Mountain Gun; ... French Nail; French raiding hammer; Hatchet; Mace;
Type 63 field gun Thailand: World War II 75: Type 90 75 mm field gun Japan: World War II 75: 7.5 cm FK 16 nA Nazi Germany: World War II 75: 7.5 cm FK 18 Nazi Germany: World War II 75: 7.5 cm FK 38 Nazi Germany: World War II 75: 7.5 cm FK 7M85 Nazi Germany: World War II 75: Ehrhardt 7.5 cm Model 1901 Norway: World War II 75: 75 mm Reșița Model ...
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 Canon de 75 modèle 1914 Schneider was a light field gun used by the French Army of World War I.It was created by modifying an export-model field gun built by Schneider et Cie at Le Creusot to fire shells from the family of 75mm artillery ammunition used by the Canon de 75 modèle 1897 and the Canon de 75 modèle 1912 Schneider.