Artillery_crazy
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Hi team members,
Recently I was happily surprised with TGM´s initiative to explore the heavy artillery segment....
As a matter of fact double happy!
Not only planning to release in 2018 a fantastic heavy artillery piece but also one that was iconic at both the First and Second World Wars....
If we were to look back, although Austria-Hungary played " the vital pivot that triggered WW1, little to nothing is offered by the mainstream manufacturers to the collector.....
A not so well versed person if he/she were to assess the war based on what manufacturers have on their catalogues, one would assume that Austria did not take part of the hostilities and the war was won using light filed guns and machine guns....Never seeing a heavy Howitzer in action....I should say that Britains has been the fist of the modern manufacturers to offer the German Heavy Krupp Morser...but THAT WAS IT..
Now.....with..TGM´s recent fantastic new item....The huge Austrian Howitzer....All changes....
THere were 2 very famous heavy guns that the Germans have to request from the Austrians so as to blst there way into Belguim....the M11 and the M16. They were so powerful that they lasted into WW2....
Brief history:
The Austrian Howitzer was under its Austrian denomination for 1916 the Morser M16 - 30.5 cm, and later used by the German Army in WW2 under the denomination 30.5 cm Morser (t) – the (t) being the designation for Czechoslovak Army.
The origins of this great gun go back to 1906 at the Skoda armament manufacturer when they started the development of a heavy siege gun. It was introduced into the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1911. In 1916 an improved model of the M 1911 followed with changed upper chassis, longer barrel, and greater range, this being then the 30.5 cm Morser M16. Both types of mortar were taken subsequently by the successor States to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, amongst them Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and of course Austria. In 1938/1939 the Wehrmacht took possession of one Morser M16 from Austria and 17 from Czechoslovakia and installed them as siege guns in Poland and France under the designation 30.5 cm Morser (t). IN 1941, five more guns 30.5 cm Morser (j) came from Yugoslavia and were operational on the Eastern Front together with other guns of the type. A few 30.5 cm Morser M11 captured in Yugoslavia and used there as coastal artillery were designated 30.5 cm Morser 639 (j).
Source:
Fact file – German Heavy Artillery Guns 1933-1945 Published by Alexander Ludeke- Pen & Sword Publishing Co.,
Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the Third Reich an Encyclopedic Survey by Terry Gander and Peter Chamberlain, Published by MacDonald and JANE´S - London
Recently I was happily surprised with TGM´s initiative to explore the heavy artillery segment....
As a matter of fact double happy!
Not only planning to release in 2018 a fantastic heavy artillery piece but also one that was iconic at both the First and Second World Wars....
If we were to look back, although Austria-Hungary played " the vital pivot that triggered WW1, little to nothing is offered by the mainstream manufacturers to the collector.....
A not so well versed person if he/she were to assess the war based on what manufacturers have on their catalogues, one would assume that Austria did not take part of the hostilities and the war was won using light filed guns and machine guns....Never seeing a heavy Howitzer in action....I should say that Britains has been the fist of the modern manufacturers to offer the German Heavy Krupp Morser...but THAT WAS IT..
Now.....with..TGM´s recent fantastic new item....The huge Austrian Howitzer....All changes....
THere were 2 very famous heavy guns that the Germans have to request from the Austrians so as to blst there way into Belguim....the M11 and the M16. They were so powerful that they lasted into WW2....
Brief history:
The Austrian Howitzer was under its Austrian denomination for 1916 the Morser M16 - 30.5 cm, and later used by the German Army in WW2 under the denomination 30.5 cm Morser (t) – the (t) being the designation for Czechoslovak Army.
The origins of this great gun go back to 1906 at the Skoda armament manufacturer when they started the development of a heavy siege gun. It was introduced into the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1911. In 1916 an improved model of the M 1911 followed with changed upper chassis, longer barrel, and greater range, this being then the 30.5 cm Morser M16. Both types of mortar were taken subsequently by the successor States to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, amongst them Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia and of course Austria. In 1938/1939 the Wehrmacht took possession of one Morser M16 from Austria and 17 from Czechoslovakia and installed them as siege guns in Poland and France under the designation 30.5 cm Morser (t). IN 1941, five more guns 30.5 cm Morser (j) came from Yugoslavia and were operational on the Eastern Front together with other guns of the type. A few 30.5 cm Morser M11 captured in Yugoslavia and used there as coastal artillery were designated 30.5 cm Morser 639 (j).
Source:
Fact file – German Heavy Artillery Guns 1933-1945 Published by Alexander Ludeke- Pen & Sword Publishing Co.,
Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the Third Reich an Encyclopedic Survey by Terry Gander and Peter Chamberlain, Published by MacDonald and JANE´S - London
