7.7 cm field cannon 96 n.A.
| 7.7 cm field cannon 96 n.A. | |
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| General Information | |
| Military designation: | 7.7 cm field cannon 96 n.A. |
| Manufacturer country: |
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| Developer / Manufacturer: | Croup , food |
| Development year: | 1904 |
| Start of production: | 1905 |
| Number of pieces: | 5086 |
| Model variants: | 7.7 cm field cannon 96, 7.7 cm field cannon 96/15 |
| Team: | 5 |
| Technical specifications | |
| Pipe length: | 1,878 m |
| Caliber : |
7.7 cm |
| Caliber length : | L / 27 |
| Number of trains : | 32 |
| Cadence : | 5 rounds / min |
| Elevation range: | –13 ° to +15 degrees |
| Side straightening area: | 8 ° |
| Furnishing | |
| Sighting device : | Panoramic telescope |
| Closure Type : | Crank lock |
The 7.7-cm field gun 96 n. A. (n. A. = new style) was a light field gun , which the German army and the armed forces of Romania , Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire in the First World War was used.
history
The 7.7 cm field cannon 96 n. A. was based on the 7.7 cm field cannon C / 96 and was expanded to include a hydropneumatic tube return brake , directional seats for the gunners, a crank lock and a panoramic telescope for indirect aiming . Existing 7.7 cm field cannons were designated as 7.7 cm field cannons 96 a. A. (a. A. = old type) renamed and converted over time accordingly to field cannons 96 n.A. 5068 pieces were produced by Krupp and Rheinmetall .
The caliber prevented the use of the gun as a prey weapon for opposing armies whose ammunition could not be fired with calibers of 7.5 cm ( France ) or 7.62 cm ( Russia and Great Britain ), while opposing field guns were drilled out and on the caliber 7 .7 cm could be expanded.
commitment
The robust weapon was the standard gun of the German field artillery in the First World War.
The gun was lighter and therefore more maneuverable than the British Ordnance QF 18 pounder gun , the French 7.5 cm field gun M1897 or the Russian Putilov 7.62 cm field gun M1902, but had a shorter range and was opposite clearly inferior to the French field cannon of 20 rounds per minute with a rate of 5 to 8 rounds in fire fighting, a serious disadvantage in trench warfare on the western front . On the other hand, the gun proved itself particularly in mobile combat, especially on the Eastern Front .
In 1915 an improved version appeared as a 7.7 cm field cannon 96/15, with a maximum firing range of 8,400 meters. In 1916 the gun was further developed into the 7.7 cm field cannon 16 . Equipped with smaller wheels, the FK 96 also proved itself as an infantry and anti-tank gun . On a raised mount, the FK 96 was also used as a high-speed gun or as a makeshift balloon and anti-aircraft gun.
After the war, it was used by the armed forces of Lithuania , Poland , Estonia and Latvia until the 1930s.
One of the guns is exhibited in the Defense Technology Museum in Koblenz .
ammunition
The full shot consisted of the projectile with a fuse and the propellant charge with smokeless powder, which was loaded using metal cartridges. Standard ammunition was the field grenade 96, a 6.8 kg high explosive projectile filled with TNT , or the field cannon projectile 11 as shrapnel . Incendiary shrapnel grenades, anti-tank grenades, smoke projectiles, flares and gas grenades were also fired. Impact or adjustable time fuses were used.
photos
Gun with an operating crew
View from obliquely left behind
View of the bracket for the aiming device
Front view with protective shield
View of the loading device and lock
Drawn gun in combat use
Gun in firing position with ammunition
literature
- Ian Hogg: 20th Century Artillery . 2nd Edition. Special edition. Gondrom, Bindlach 2001, ISBN 3-8112-1878-6
- Georg Ortenburg: Arms of the armies of millions . Bechtermünz, Augsburg 2002, ISBN 3-8289-0521-8 , pp. 106ff
Web links
- 7.7 cm FK 96 of the Bulgarian Armed Forces on bulgarianartillery.it (English)
- 7.7 cm FK 96 of the Bulgarian Armed Forces on forum.boinaslava.net (English)
- List of received guns (English)
- description
Individual evidence
- ↑ 77MM FIELD GUN, M1896 (old pattern) . English. Online at flickr.com, accessed April 2, 2013.
- ↑ Bernard Fitzsimons (Ed.): The Big Guns - Artillery 1914-1918 . BPC Publishing, London 1973, p. 8