The Skoda 100 mm Model 1916 (100 mm M.16) was a mountain howitzer used by
Austria-Hungary during
World War I. The
Turks used a 105 mm variant, the M.16(T). The
Wehrmacht redesignated this as the 10 cm GebH 16 or 16(รถ). Guns acquired from Italy, after 1943, were known as 10 cm GebH 316(i); those acquired from Czechoslovakia were 10 cm GebH 16(t). The Italians referred to weapons gained either through capture or reparations as the Obice da 100/17 modello 16. The gun could be broken into three sections, intended for towing by two
animal cart
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s. The gun crew was protected by a
gun shield
A U.S. Marine manning an M240 machine gun equipped with a gun shield
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. The Italians used lighter shells than the Czechs, which accounts for the greater range and muzzle velocity of their guns.
Notes
References
* Chamberlain, Peter and Gander, Terry. ''Infantry, Mountain and Airborne Guns''. New York: Arco, 1975
* Gander, Terry and Chamberlain, Peter. ''Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945''. New York: Doubleday, 1979
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Mountain artillery
World War I mountain artillery
Artillery of Czechoslovakia
World War I howitzers
World War II artillery of Italy
100 mm artillery
World War I artillery of Austria-Hungary
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