Moving artillery
Propelled Guns was the German Empire from 1872 to 1919 the term for the light and medium guns equipped artillery , in which the gun crew were riding on the gun. However, it was still dependent on roads and paths, and the gunners had to dismount in difficult terrain .
In Austria, mounted artillery was also referred to as traveling artillery.
Originally marching crews of the guns beside these ago. From the middle of the 19th century the gunners of medium-sized batteries were given their own seats on mounts and limbs .
Gun operators mounted and dismounted
Gun operation on limber and gun (around 1900)
Gun operation on limber and gun (Reichswehr)
Light field howitzer in motion (Wehrmacht)
Traditional artillery based on the German model (Chile, State Parade 2014)
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The gunners in the imperial army were mostly armed with pistols and side rifles and had no rifles.
In the Reichswehr and thereafter, the term mobile artillery no longer existed, as there was no longer any foot artillery and therefore a delimitation was no longer necessary. In the further development, trucks or tractors were increasingly used to pull the guns , which were then replaced by self-propelled guns . Corps artillery guns (155 mm field cannon), divisional artillery (155 mm field cannon) or light artillery guns outside of the artillery (20 mm cannon on a field mount for anti-aircraft defense) were also pulled by tractors or trucks in the Bundeswehr .
literature
- Georg Ortenburg: Weapons and the use of weapons in the age of the revolutionary wars. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1988, ISBN 3-7637-5807-0 .
- Weapons and the use of weapons in the age of the Wars of Unification. Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1990, ISBN 3-7637-5809-7 .
- Max Hein: The Little Book of the German Army. Lipsius & Tischer Verlag, Kiel & Leipzig 1901. Reprint, Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1998, ISBN 3-8289-0271-5 .