The 122 mm howitzer M1909 () was a Russian 121.92 mm (4.8 inch)

howitzer The howitzer () is an artillery weapon that falls between a cannon (or field gun) and a mortar. It is capable of both low angle fire like a field gun and high angle fire like a mortar, given the distinction between low and high angle fire break ...

used throughout

World War I World War I or the First World War (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918), also known as the Great War, was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War I, Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers. Fighting to ...

. Following the defeats of the

Russo-Japanese War The Russo-Japanese War (8 February 1904 – 5 September 1905) was fought between the Russian Empire and the Empire of Japan over rival imperial ambitions in Manchuria and the Korean Empire. The major land battles of the war were fought on the ...

, Russia sought to modernize some of its equipment, which included the purchase of foreign designed artillery. Seeking new systems from both France and Germany, the 122 mm howitzer M1909 was developed by the German arms manufacturer

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.122 mm howitzer M1910
from Landships Russia also bought a very similar system from the French arms manufacturer

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, the

122 mm howitzer M1910 122 mm howitzer M1910 () was a Russian 121.92 mm (4.8 inch) field howitzer used throughout World War I in large numbers. Following the defeats of the Russo-Japanese War, Russia sought to modernize some of its equipment, which inclu ...

. It was later updated by the

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as the 122 mm howitzer M1909/37 which saw combat in the

German-Soviet War The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War (term), Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a Theater (warfare), theatre of World War II ...

Weapons of comparable role, performance and era

- very similar piece in Russian service designed by

* QF 4.5-inch howitzer - British equivalent, in Russian service also * 10.5 cm Feldhaubitze 98/09 - early German equivalent * 10.5 cm leFH 16 - later German equivalent * 10 cm M. 14 Feldhaubitze - Austro-Hungarian equivalent

References

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