10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15

Infobox Weapon
name=10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15


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origin=Austria-Hungary
type=field gun
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is_artillery=yes
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service=1916-1945
used_by=flag|Austria-Hungary
flag|Italy
flag|Nazi Germany
wars=World War I
World War II
designer=Skoda
design_date=1909-1914
manufacturer=Skoda
production_date=1914-1918
number=577?
variants=Cannone da 105/32
weight=convert|3030|kg|lb
length=
part_length=convert|3.64|m|ft L/35
width=
height=
crew=
cartridge=convert|16.1|kg|lb
caliber=105 mm (4.13 in)
action=
rate=3-4 rpm
velocity=668 m/s (2,191 ft/s)
range=
max_range=convert|16200|m|yd
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carriage=box trail
elevation=-10° to +30°
traverse=6°
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The 10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15 was a heavy field gun used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. Guns captured or turned over to Italy as reparations after World War I were taken into Italian service as the Cannone da 105/32 and were bored out to 105 mm to fit Italian ammunition. It was one of the principal Italian long-range guns in World War II and saw service in North Africa and Russia. Those few guns that were captured from the Italians by the Germans after the Italian surrender in 1943 were designated as 10.5cm Kanone 320(i). It doesn't seem to have seen service with any of the Austro-Hungarian successor states after World War I.

For transport it broke down into the customary two loads. And it carried the customary two seats on the gun shield for crewmen. All data given herein is for the Italian version of the gun as specifications in Austrian service haven't been located.

References

* Gander, Terry and Chamberlain, Peter. "Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945". New York: Doubleday, 1979 ISBN 0-385-15090-3
* Ortner, M. Christian. "The Austro-Hungarian Artillery From 1867 to 1918: Technology, Organization, and Tactics". Vienna, Verlag Militaria, 2007 ISBN 978-3-902526-13-7

External Links

* [http://italie1935-45.com/RE/photoscopes/photoscopecannone105-32.html Cannone da 105/32 on Italie 1935-1945]