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It looks like having a pneumatic recoil system, so a 20th century gun. The wheels look like metal with rubber tyre, so rather WW2 than WW1. It might be an older design but updated, though.
If this is the complete prototype, the breach points at a French Design (but not the 105mm Schneider m1913 which had rounded carriage "cheeks" rather than the angled ones shown here) so might be Italian, Tsarist oder Jpanese as well, but I am puzzled by the wheel and gunshield design.
An excellent way to start Good Friday. Many thanks to Strelets, and season's greetings to everybody!
These Friday previews are great but the subjects Are getting harder to guess, you need to have a degree in Artillery though the ages to stand a chance.
It would be nice to have easy to guess set now & then to give us dummies a chance.
Have to agree with Pa on this.
Provided that the long item at the top left really represents a recoil mechanism, the carriage & breech indicate a WWI or even earlier gun while wheels & shield suggest a later or modernized piece.
Tried to identify the previewed gun by comparing it with common types of the topics Strelets is working at.
But couldn‘t find any matches neither with austrian, ottoman (german), serbian (french), commonwealth or russian WWI artillery, nor with WWII japanese or commonwealth/allied ordnance.
For ACW, other early “modern“ wars or “colonial“ skirmishes it seems really unsuitable imho.
So, indeed an interesting & challenging preview this time. :smile:
Anyway, thanks for another great friday! :+1:
Will be exciting to see if someone can figure this out.
"The 105/28 howitzer was a World War One vintage gun of French design (Canon de 105 mle 1913 Schneider or L13 S); originally starting life as a design on the drafting board of the Russian Putilov Armaments factory. It proved a popular design and was exported to various countries, Italy among them.
It remained a common weapon during World War Two and continued in Italian service until 1943 seeing action on both the African and Russian fronts."
Schnieder seems good but I am stuck for the scale as the barrel looks too slim. Some 75s had similar wheels.
how about this F of W for a near match 105/28