Hello! I really need information on the development, production and military acceptance of the Field howithzer 1898, as well as other details on the modernization of this gun. What year did mass production start? The wiki says the upgrade took place in 1902-1904, but is it an old gun or just started mass production after modernization in 1904?
Thanks for the reply!
Information about Feldhaubitze 98/09
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Re: Information about Feldhaubitze 98/09
Löbells Jahresberichte for 1910 (pages 396 and 397) describes the leichte Feldhaubitze 98/09 as "a new piece" that is being introduced to the light field howitzer batteries of German field artillery regiments. Thus suggests that manufacture began in 1909 or 1910.
Löbells Jahresberichte for 1899 (pages 426 and 427) describes the Feldhaubitze 98 as a new weapon. This is in keeping with the proposition that manufacture took place in the early years of the twentieth century.
As a number of new light field howitzer batteries were formed in the two or three years immediately preceding the outbreak of war in 1914, it is likely that, while the first Model 98/09 howitzers to be built made use of barrels from existing Model 98 weapons, later Model 98/09 howitzers were provided with brand new barrels.
Löbells Jahresberichte for 1899 (pages 426 and 427) describes the Feldhaubitze 98 as a new weapon. This is in keeping with the proposition that manufacture took place in the early years of the twentieth century.
As a number of new light field howitzer batteries were formed in the two or three years immediately preceding the outbreak of war in 1914, it is likely that, while the first Model 98/09 howitzers to be built made use of barrels from existing Model 98 weapons, later Model 98/09 howitzers were provided with brand new barrels.
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Re: Information about Feldhaubitze 98/09
Löbells Jahresberichte for 1911 describes 63 field batteries of the peacetime German Army as being equipped with light field howitzers.
Löbells Jahresberichte for 1912 describes 81 field batteries of the peacetime German Army as being equipped with light field howitzers.
As the army mobilized by Germany in August of 1914 took the field with 162 batteries of light field howitzers (150 active and 12 reserve), it is reasonable to assume that more than half of the 98/09 light field howitzers on hand at the start of World War I had been manufactured between 1911 and 1914. Moreover, it is also reasonable to assume that the stock of barrels from the Model 1898 howitzers that were being replaced had been exhausted and that, as a result, the pieces produced between 1911 and 1914 made use of new barrels.
Löbells Jahresberichte for 1912 describes 81 field batteries of the peacetime German Army as being equipped with light field howitzers.
As the army mobilized by Germany in August of 1914 took the field with 162 batteries of light field howitzers (150 active and 12 reserve), it is reasonable to assume that more than half of the 98/09 light field howitzers on hand at the start of World War I had been manufactured between 1911 and 1914. Moreover, it is also reasonable to assume that the stock of barrels from the Model 1898 howitzers that were being replaced had been exhausted and that, as a result, the pieces produced between 1911 and 1914 made use of new barrels.