Skoda 75 mm Model 15
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The Skoda 75 mm Model 15 (75 mm M.15) was a mountain gun manufactured by Skoda Works in Czechoslovakia.
The gun was first used by the Austro-Hungarian Army (1918). It was later used by the Bulgarians, Czechoslovaks, Germans, Italians, Polish, Romanians, Turks, and Yugoslavs. The Italians would redesignate these as Obice da 75/13 and the Wehrmacht would redesignate them as 7.5 cm GebK 259(i) and 7.5 cm GebK 15.
For transport, the gun could be dismantled into 6 parts, generally carried in 4 loads. In addition, there was an armoured shield fitted on some (perhaps many) such guns. A revised version of this gun was released as the Skoda 75 mm Model 1928.
Statistics
- Calibre: 75 mm
- Elevation: -10 to 50 °
- Muzzle velocity: 349 m/s
- Range: 8250 m
- Traverse: 7 °
- Weight: 613 kg
- Weight of shell: 6.388 kg