17 cm Kanone 18 Field Gun
Country of Origin | Germany |
Type | Field Gun |
Caliber | 173.000 mm |
Length | 8.530 m |
Weight | 17520.000 kg |
Ammunition Weight | 62.80 kg |
Range | 29.600 km |
Muzzle Velocity | 925 m/s |
Contributor: C. Peter Chen
ww2dbaseThe German 17 cm Kanone 18 heavy howitzers (17 cm K 18 for short), built by Krupp and Hannoversche Maschinenbau, were heavy corps-level guns. In the field, they delivered great damage, but they also had a great disadvantage of requiring a long period of time to tear down for transport, thus during the latter part of the war many of the K 18 crews sabotaged their own guns in the face of advancing Allied and Soviet forces to prevent capture; many examples were indeed captured.Source: Wikipedia ww2dbase
Last Major Revision: Aug 2012
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