Skoda artillery in late 1930s

[peeved]

Artillerie des 20. Jahrhunderts, Band 1, Leichte Feldgeschutze by Franz Kosar has a bit clearer version of the H3 photo and some info on its 76,5 mm companion piece.

Markus

[Pavel Novak]

Btw. there is also information that Finland bought that batch of produced H4 howitzers.

[Manuferey]

Pictures of 10,5 cm H2 or Model 41 in Finnish service here:
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic. ... 0&t=151900

And surviving Finnish guns with pneumatic tires (modernized post-WW2?):
From http://www.jaegerplatoon.net/ARTILLERY5.htm (see 105/H41)



Emmanuel

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

Gathering all the information we have about Skoda H-Series of light howitzers:

Skoda H1 - 10cm Light Howitzer, export model for Iran, 1935

No images

Skoda H2 - 10.5cm Light Howitzer, export model for Latvia not delivered, 1938. To Finland in 1941.

split trail, wooden wheels

Skoda H3 - 10cm Light Howitzer, planned for Czechoslovakian Army as Vz 39 but cancelled, 1938.

split trail, pneumatic tires and mudguards

Skoda H4: 10.5cm Light Howitzer, maybe ordered by the German army in an order of 88 copies ??

I have in my computer this photo labeled as 100mm Skoda H4 howitzer taken at a museum in Romania. (split trail, wooden wheels)

Maybe the Germans gave the order of 88 copies to Romania
....But I can not see any difference with the Skoda H2 howitzer used by Finland.

Maybe Skoda H2 and H4 howitzers are the same howitzer with a different denomination.


Regards Sturm78

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

About the Skoda E-series guns I have some questions:

About the image posted by Markus on 20 Dec 2011, Is correctly identified as an E7 or is an E9 gun?
76.5mm or 75mm ??

In this link it is labeled as a 75mm E9 gun http://www.delostrelectvocsarmady1918-1 ... -kanon-e-9


What about 75mm Skoda E3 gun? It looks like a gun with a very short tube. Export model??

Any information and/or images about these guns will be wellcome.

Sturm78

[peeved]

Kosar has some data on the E3.

Markus

[Pavel Novak]

What about 75mm Skoda E3 gun? It looks like a gun with a very short tube. Export model??

E3 was proposed as new gun for cavalry brigades but it was rejected. I don't know if from technical or organization reasons. E7 was planned as new gun for fast divisions - to replace old 8cm M.5/8 guns but organization could be changed with new weapons.

[Sturm78]

Thank you, Pavel

Do you have any image of E7 gun?

Sturm78

[Pavel Novak]

In my opinion info on that site www.delostrelectvocsarmady1918-1939.estranky.cz is wrong and that gun is E7 as is actually written at the top of this page (peeved post).

[Sturm78]

Thank you, Pavel.

Does somebody have any wartime image of Skoda H4 howitzer in Romanian service?

Here a small image of a 15cm Skoda M1934 (K2) Romanian howitzer firing


Image form http://www.wwiiincolor.com
Sturm78

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

The only image I have could find of the 75mm Skoda C6 mountain gun (often designated as M1939).
In use in Romania and Iran.

Image from http://www.delostrelectvocsarmady1918-1939.estranky.cz

Sturm78

[Sturm78]

Hi all,

I found this interesting image of an 75mm Skoda M1928 Romanian artillery battery during a parade in 1940:

There are very few photographs of the Romanian artillery during World War II.

Image from Ebay
Sturm78

[Manuferey]

It is difficult to see the flags in the background but couldn't it be a parade of Yugoslavian troops with 8 cm M28 guns? Yugoslavian soldiers also wore Adrian helmets.

Emmanuel

[Sturm78]

Hi Emmanuel,

The photocaption said "Romanian" but I am not 100% sure

Sturm78

[ltcolonel]

Yugoslavian 8 cm M 28 on parade 1930 th. The actual caliber 76,5 mm. Yugoslavia has had 300 of these guns.