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Nitpicking aside, I remember reading about these. Fairly successfull member of the class wasn't it? Albeit with the usual overloading problems of such conversions - period car engines weren't exactly beasts to begin with...
Nope, anti-assault, 76,2-мм противоштурмовая пушка образца 1910 года. It's a variant of the 3 inch mountain gun with an even smaller propellant load and wouldn't really work in an AA role too well.
It has more to do with the special mounting used by the gun (this is a similar variant of the 75 mm mle. 1897: http://en.tracesofwar.com/upload/1706140102043656.JPG)
"anti-assault gun" wat. "Aircraft", perhaps?
ReplyDeleteNitpicking aside, I remember reading about these. Fairly successfull member of the class wasn't it? Albeit with the usual overloading problems of such conversions - period car engines weren't exactly beasts to begin with...
Nope, anti-assault, 76,2-мм противоштурмовая пушка образца 1910 года. It's a variant of the 3 inch mountain gun with an even smaller propellant load and wouldn't really work in an AA role too well.
DeleteIt is a defensive gun intended for use in fortifications (fortress gun)
DeleteAh. Basically a light infantry gun then? Odd name to call it but meh - military nomenclatures can be weird.
DeleteIt has more to do with the special mounting used by the gun (this is a similar variant of the 75 mm mle. 1897: http://en.tracesofwar.com/upload/1706140102043656.JPG)
DeleteA bunker/casemate mount I take it? I can see why that kind of thing would make a logical quick-and-dirty light AFV gun, certainly.
DeleteYes, a casemate gun. You can see in the Garford-Putilovets cutaway that it is still mounted on its original pedestal.
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