75mm Mle 1897 in german service

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Re: 75mm Mle 1897 in german service

Post by Clive Mortimore » 29 Jun 2022 10:27

ThatZenoGuy wrote:
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It depends of the distribution of the rare fire-control equipments, as for the coastal artillery.
The 7,5 cm Flak (f) from WW1 could be used with a mecanical french fire-control station -quite akin to Kommando-Hilfsfgerät 35.

When such equipment was not available -if german had seized and understood the operating methods of if, the guns were used in so-called free and and barrage fire. Please see random example.
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The fire was not coordinated and was of course not very efficient.
As I understand it the state of the art 88's required thousands of rounds to take out bombers, and these guns were smaller, less accurate, and probably didn't have quite as good fuzes. I'd be surprised if they shot down even a single bomber or agile fighter. I guess it would've worked as a weapon to simply scare off pilots though.

Seems to me like these guns would've been best used as HEAT lobbing AT guns, you can squeeze 100mm+ pen out of a 75mm shell in WW2.
Barrage fire filled a volume of air with nasty exploding bits of metal. If it made a bomber formation change direction, of fly higher where the fighters would be, therefore it served its purpose as an in air barricade.

In Britain the Home Guard manned Z rocket batteries, the one at Chlemsford was located where the Luftwaffe would be starting their bombing run on the East of London and often broke up the formation or made it change course without hitting one aircraft but saved another attack on London.
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Re: 75mm Mle 1897 in german service

Post by carius » 30 Jun 2022 03:45

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Post by AvB » 06 May 2023 12:35

Wow that must be sad late war old man's lasting standing position somewhere in Germany? :)

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Re: 75mm Mle 1897 in german service

Post by Sturm78 » 04 Nov 2023 00:35

Hi all

An image from Ebay. According to photo caption, Polish gun captured near Danzig....Is this correct ?

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Re: 75mm Mle 1897 in german service

Post by Eax-E » 04 Nov 2023 08:08

Hi,
At least it is consistent. The 75 mm is actually mounted on piedestal Ml16 (polish).

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