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The BL 7.2-inch howitzer Mk 6 (there was a shift from Roman numerals) retained the Carriage M1 of the Mk V but had a new 7.2-inch 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) longer barrel than previous marks and a fifth charge was added to the ammunition. The longer barrel and extra charge provided an increase in range to 19,600 yd (17,900 m) and the new carriage also ...
12 cm felthaubits/m32. Norway. World War II. 120. 120 mm howitzer Model 1901. German Empire. Balkan wars, World War I, Finnish Civil War, Hungarian–Romanian War. 120. 120 mm Krupp howitzer M1905.
A British 4.5-inch gun firing in Tunisia, 1943. The Headquarters (HQ) of 1st AGRA was formed at Hamilton Park, Glasgow, on 24 August 1942. [8] [9] [10] It was assigned to First Army for the landings in North Africa (Operation Torch), and arrived in Tunisia in January 1943, together with 56th Heavy Regiment, equipped with 7.2-inch howitzers – the first heavy regiment of the RA to serve ...
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The BL 8-inch howitzer Marks VI, VII and VIII (6, 7 and 8) were a series of British artillery siege howitzers on mobile carriages of a new design introduced in World War I. [ note 1 ] They were designed by Vickers in Britain and produced by all four British artillery manufacturers but mainly by Armstrong and one American company.
Typical early war use included towing such medium pieces as the 60-pounder, 6-inch howitzer, 4.5-inch gun and 5.5-inch howitzer, until the AEC Matador medium gun tractor was issued in sufficient numbers. Heavy artillery pieces towed included the 6-inch gun, 8-inch howitzer, 155 mm Long Tom and the 7.2-inch howitzer.
Gun-howitzer (also referred to as gun howitzer) is a type of artillery weapon that is intended to fulfill the roles of both an ordinary cannon or field gun, and of a howitzer. [1] It is thus able to convey both direct and indirect fire. [1] Modern gun-howitzers are usually identified just as howitzers. To be able to serve as a howitzer, gun ...
The Panzerhaubitze 2000 (German pronunciation: [ˈpant͡sɐhaʊ̯ˌbɪt͡sə t͡svaɪ̯ˈtaʊ̯zn̩t]), meaning "armoured howitzer 2000" [3] and abbreviated PzH 2000, is a German 155 mm self-propelled howitzer developed by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Rheinmetall in the 1980s and 1990s for the German Army. The PzH 2000 has automatic support ...