The
Krupp C64 (sometimes C/64) steel, breech loaded field gun (8cm caliber, 4 kg projectile, 3800m range)
was one of the main artillery pieces of the Prussians in the
1870–1871 war with France. It was superior to the French counterparts in every way: accuracy, rate of fire, range and reliability of the fuse.
The
obturation, a big problem in earlier Krupp
rifled breech loaders, was ensured by
Broadwell ring design borrowed from American engineer
Lewis Wells Broadwell.
The C64 was the sole gun of the horse artillery units. Each unit comprised three batteries, each battery was equipped with six C64 guns, for a total of eighteen guns per unit. The foot artillery units had an equal mixture of C64 and the heavier C67 (six-pounder gun).
See also
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7.7 cm FK 96
The 7.7 cm Feldkanone 96 (7.7 cm FK 96) was a field gun used by Germany before World War I.
History
It was a thoroughly conventional gun, being a modernized version of Krupp's FK 73 gun, but failed to incorporate any recoil system othe ...
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Technical dataPicture in Turkish service
Field artillery of Germany