24 cm M.98 mortar
| 24 cm M.98 mortar | |
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| General Information | |
| Military designation: | 24 cm M.98 mortar |
| Manufacturer country: | Austria-Hungary |
| Developer / Manufacturer: | Škoda , Plzeň |
| Development year: | 1898 |
| Production time: | 1899 to 1918 |
| Model variants: | M.98 and M.98 / 07 |
| Team: | 8 to 10 |
| Technical specifications | |
The 24 cm M.98 mortar in the versions M 98 and M 98/07 was the heaviest gun in the inventory of the Austro-Hungarian fortress artillery until the introduction of the 30.5 cm M.11 mortar in 1911 .
Introduced in peacetime, the M 98 mortar already proved itself in 1902 on the artillery firing range and test area in Felixdorf . Bombardment tests were carried out with the device to gain new knowledge in the field of fortress construction . The partial construction of a permanent plant with an 8 cm M 94 armored turret and a lifting tower for a 7 cm rapid-fire cannon, a field position, an observation tower with armored dome, various types of wire and fence obstacles and various types of obstacles were shot at from a distance of 4.5 km Types of power and telephone lines.
Although the 30.5 cm mortar was intended as a replacement, fourteen of these mortars were still in active service at the start of the war in 1914 . Like numerous other artillery pieces of the Austro-Hungarian Army , this mortar was developed and manufactured by Škoda .
There were two variants of the mortar:
- M 98 with two-thirds jacket pipe
- M 98/07 with jacket pipe up to the mouth
An M 98 mortar is in the Army History Museum in Vienna.
| Mortar M 98 | |
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| Technical specifications | |
| Type: | heavy thrown barrel recoil gun with screw cap |
| Motor train: | two loads - upper carriage with tube, lower carriage with bedding |
| Horse train (at least 16 horses): | four loads - upper carriage, tube, lower carriage, bedding |
| Carriage: | Pivot mount |
| Caliber: | 240 mm above the fields, 243 mm in the trains |
| Bullet weight: | 133 kg |
| Powder charge: | up to 20 kg |
| Firing range max .: | 6.5 km |
| Muzzle velocity: | 278 m / s |
| Weight of the ready-to-fire gun: | 7,040 kg |
| Side straightening circle: | 360 ° |
| Elevation: | + 40 ° to + 65 ° |
| Rate of fire: | 1 shot in 3–4 minutes |
See also
literature
- Teaching material and service regulations of the Austro-Hungarian Army in the war archive in Vienna
- Moritz Ritter von Brunner (ed.): The constant fortification. For the kuk military training institutions and for self-teaching for officers of all weapons . 7th completely revised edition. Seidel, Vienna 1909.
- Erwin Anton Grestenberger: Imperial and Royal fortifications in Tyrol and Carinthia 1860–1918 . Verlag Österreich ua, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-7046-1558-7 .
