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7,7 cm L.23 Feldkanone M.96 n.A. (Krupp)

At the beginning of World War One the 7.7 cm Feldkanone M.96 served in three of the four artillery units attached to an infantry division, in both batteries of each artillery reserve regiment, in both batteries attached to each Landwehr brigade, and in the horse battery of each of the eleven cavalry divisions. Battlefield losses in the artillery were replaced with improved guns and howitzers. In 1917, the infantry divisions had three artillery units, only one of which still deployed the 7.7 cm Feldkanone M.96. The other two artillery units were equipped with the improved 7.7 cm Feldkanone M.16 and the 10.5 cm Feldhaubitze M.98/06 or M.16.

Modelos Disponibles

• 1:72 EMHAR 7204 (Feldkanone & Crew)
• 1:72 Fine Scale Factory WE4
• 20 mm Reviresco ART-1 (Feldkanone & Limber)
• 1:76 Tumbling Dice

Especificaciones Técnicas

• 7.7 cm L.23 Feldkanone M.96 neue Art (Krupp)
• Peso: 1750 kg on campaign
• Barrel Weight: 390 kg
• Limber Weight: 535 kg
• Calibre: 77 mm
• Longitud del cañón: 1771 mm (L.23)
• Shell Length: 3,75 Calibres
• Fuse: Doppelzünder 96, or delayed fuse
• Ammunition Supply:
• 32 Shells in Limber
• 52 Shells in Caison
• Cadencia: 5 Round per Minute
• Battery Rapid Fire with six Guns: 50 Rounds per Minute
• Velocidad de la bala: 465 m/s
• Alcance de fuego:
• 800–5000 m with delayed fuse
• 8000 m with impact fuse
• Shell Weight:
• Shrapnell with 300 Balls of 10 g each: 6,85 kg
• Shell with 170 g Granatfüllung 88: 6,85 kg
• Penetración de blindaje de 0-100 m:
• A.P.H.E. (1941) 53 mm

Bibliografía

• Hogg, Ian: Twentieth-Century Artillery

Museum Pieces

• Wehrtechnisches Museum, Koblenz, Germany
• Royal Armouries Museum, Fort Nelson, Fareham, Hants., England

Empleo Histórico

• German Artillery 1914-1918
• Bulgarian Artillery 1914-1918
• Romanian Artillery 1916-1918
• Turkish Artillery 1914-1918
• Polish Artillery 1919 to ca. 1930
• Lithuanian Artillery 1919 to ca. 1930
• Estonian Artillery 1919 to ca. 1930
• Livonian Artillery 1919 to ca. 1930

At the beginning of World War One the 7.7 cm Feldkanone M.96 was the most common field gun in the German infantry and cavalry divisions. Many of the surviving 7.7 cm Feldkanone M.96 were taken into Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian and Livonian army after World War One, and they remained in service until replaced by more modern equipment in the 1930’s.

German Artillery and heavy Machine Guns World-War One 1916–1919

Revisión de las figuras EMHAR en escala 1:72

The German Artillerymen and heavy Machine Gunners in this set are wearing the steel helmet M.1916, only the officer figure has retained the earlier Pickelhaube with camouflage cloth cover. The figuras may be converted to cover the 1914 to 1916 period of the war by mounting new heads with the Pickelhaube helmet taken from Airfix WW1 German infantry. The Krupp field gun M.96 n.A. consists of nine parts which should be soldered or superglued together carefully. It is a very useful model of the most common field gun in German service during the early years of the war. The 7.7 cm Feldkanone M.96 n.A. continued to serve in the Polish, Lithuanian, Estonian and Livonian army until the 1930’s when it was replaced by more modern equipment.

 

British Artillery and heavy Machine Guns World-War One 1916–1918

Revisión de las figuras EMHAR en escala 1:72

British artillerymen and infantry wearing the steel helmet. The figuras are suitables for wargames and dioramas of both World Wars. The 18 pdr field guns included in this set may be used in dioramas of the 1940 campaign in France if they are fitted with new wheels sporting rubber tires. Experienced modellers will find this conversion interesting and not too difficult. The infantry figuras may be used to represent Australian, New Zealand or Indian infantry of World War Two. Modellers will want to increase the variety of poses by attaching different heads to these troops and mixing them with similar figuras from other manufacturers.

Contenido

• 24 Figures in 6 posturas – 24 mm igualan 173 cm altura
• Officer with Binoculars (service cap)
• Artilleryman with Shell, avanzando
• Kneeling Artilleryman
• Machine Gunner with Vickers HMG
• Infantryman, standing, tirando
• Infantryman with fixed Bayonet, avanzando
• Two 18 pdr Field Guns

French 75 mm Field Gun MLE 1897 of World-War One, 1914–1918

The famous 75 mm field gun modèle 1897 was manufactured at the foundry and arsenal at Bourges, capitol of the département Cher. One important feature of the M.1897 field gun was its hydropneumatic barrel brake which absorbed most of the recoil and allowed the gun to be loaded, aimed and fired much more quickly than previous guns which had to be manhandled back into their proper firing position after each shot. The famous 75 remained in service long after the Great War of 1914-1918. Thousands of these reliable guns were upgraded in French service in 1938 and 1940, and many of them ended up in the German Wehrmacht and other Axis formations after the fall of France.

Museum Exhibits

Barrel No. 15932 (Bourges 1917), Musée de l’Armée, Paris

Left rear view

Nordenfelt breech

Left side view

Rear view

Barrel No. 18095 (Bourges 1918), Musée de l’Armée, Paris

Close-up of the plaque

Elevating mechnism No. 388 (Puteaux 1901)

Apparails de levage No. 1737 ( Paris 1918)

Full frontal view

N 325 (Bourges 1918) and limber, Musée de l’Armée, Paris

Rear view of field gun

Elevating mechanism No. 2066 (Bourges 1918)

Infantería Británica and Tank Crew of World-War One, 1916–1918

Revisión de las figuras EMHAR en escala 1:72

British infantry wearing the steel helmet. The EMHAR figuras are suitable for dioramas and wargames of the Western Front. Three of the figuras represent dismounted tank crew members which may be used in conjunction with a model of the British Tank M. IV Male or Female. The advancing and prone figuras may be deployed quite realistically on multi-figure infantry stands which are often used in wargames. Conversion and head-swapping would further increase the variety of poses in this set. If this figure range proves successful for EMHAR, perhaps a set of French or American infantry of World War One may become available eventually.

Contenido

52 Figures in 13 posturas – 24 mm igualan 173 cm altura

• Officer with Binoculars and Map (steel helmet M.1916)
• Officer with Revolver drawn (service cap), avanzando
• Kneeling Infantryman with Mortar
• Prone machine gunner with Lewis LMG
• Grenadier throwing Handgrenade
• Infantryman running with Lewis LMG drum magazines
• Infantryman with fixed Bayonet, asaltando
• Infantryman with fixed Bayonet, avanzando
• Standing Infantryman en Abrigo
• Prone Infantryman en Abrigo
• Tank Commander (service cap)
• Two Tank Crewmen carrying Ammunition Box

Vehículo Blindado Lanchester

Revisión del vehículo Reviresco en escala 1:72

A modified Lanchester armoured car in Russian service. The Russian army received a shipment of 20 Lanchesters in 1915. These vehicles were fitted with a small cupola on the turret roof, and they had side shields protecting the turret machine gun. Additional Lanchesters arrived in Enero of 1916, when a British Royal Navy Air Service expeditionary force under Commander Oliver Locker-Lampson landed at Alexandrovsk in the Arctic Circle. The unit deployed for action in the Caucasus in Junio 1916, and it sent detachments as far as Turkey and Persia. The R.N.A.S. later re-deployed to the Black Sea, thence to Romania and Galicia, to support Russian forces engaged there. The R.N.A.S. maintained its rear supply base at Kursk until 12 Enero 1918, when the force withdrew toward Murmansk by rail. The troops and their vehicles departed Murmansk by ship on 1 Febrero 1918.
Lanchester armoured cars proved very reliable in the course of these campaigns, they traveled long distances across difficult terrain, and withstood the extreme weather conditions encountered in Russia. The allied expeditionary forces participated in the counter-revolutionary struggle against the Red Army. R.N.A.S. squadrons fought the Red Army during the withdrawal to Murmansk, American troops occupied Vladivostok, and a mixed division of American, British and Canadian troops opposed Trotsky’s forces on the river Dvina in Noviembre of 1918.
Most of the 30 to 36 Lancaster armoured cars available to the Russian army served with White Russian forces after the 1917 Revolution, although captured vehicles may have been used by the Red Army as well. Reliable service records for the Lanchester armoured car in Russian service end in 1917, presumably because the cars could not be kept in operation without spare parts. The German army captured a number of armoured vehicles on the Eastern Front, probably a mixture of Austin-Putilov and Lanchester armoured cars, six of which were made operational to serve in the 11. Zug, Panzerkraftwagen-MG-Abteilung 1.

Contenido

• Lanchester Armoured Car
• Planta motriz: 6-cylinder, 4.8 liter, 48.5 kw @ 2200 rpm
• Peso: 4000-5000 kg
• Velocidad: 80 km/h
• Blindaje: 8 mm
• Armamento: Vickers-Maxim MG, Lewis LMG stowed inside
• Tripulación: 3 or 4
• Año: 1915