Worlds first mountain gun able to be broken down

Mountain guns are

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pieces designed for mountain warfare and other areas where wheeled transport is not possible. They are generally capable of being taken apart to make smaller loads for transport by horses, humans, mules, tractors, or trucks. As such, they are sometimes called "pack guns" or "pack howitzers". During the

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these small portable guns were widely used and were called "mountain howitzers". The first designs of modern breechloading mountain guns with recoil control and the capacity to be easily broken down and reassembled into highly efficient units were made by Greek army engineers P. Lykoudis and Panagiotis Danglis (after whom the Schneider-Danglis gun was named) in the 1890s. Mountain guns are similar to infantry support guns. They are largely outdated, their role being filled by

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 ...

s, mortars,

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s, recoilless rifles, and

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s. Most modern artillery is manufactured from light-weight materials and can be transported fully assembled by helicopters.

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File:80 mm French mountain gun with a 130 pound air mine attached.jpg, 80 mm French mountain gun with a air mine attached c. 1915 File:Bergkanon M1848 side view.jpg, File:RML2.5inchMountaunGunAssembling1895.jpg, File:QF2.95inchMountainGunMule.jpg, File:German anti-tank gun & crew October 1918 AWM H13453.jpeg, File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1991-068-35, SS-Karstwehr-Bataillons, Artillerie-Ausbildung.jpg, File:3.7inchHowitzerInActionMawlu3November1944.jpg, File:Spanish-marines-man-105mm-howitzer-19811001.jpg, File:Italian Army exercise Lavaredo 2019 - 02.jpg, File:Type14MTGun.jpg, Type 41 75 mm mountain gun, a licensed copy of the German Krupp M1908, located at The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum in London, Ontario.

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''Popular Science'', May 1941, '' "The Old Army Army Mule Takes Guns Where Wheels Won't Go" ''

''Assembling the Howitzer''
detail photos showing a 75mm howitzer's various sections being taken off mules and assembled {{DEFAULTSORT:Mountain Gun *

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