Английская Википедия:21 cm Mörser 10
The 21 cm Mörser 10 (21 cm Mrs 10) was a heavy howitzer used by Germany in World War I (although classified as a mortar (Mörser) by the German military). It replaced the obsolete 21 cm Mörser 99, which lacked a recoil system. For transport, it broke down into two loads. Some howitzers were fitted with a Gun shield during the war. As it was also intended for siege use, a concrete-penetrating shell was also used. Unusually, it had two spades: a folding one halfway down the trail and a fixed one at the end of the trail.
Before the 21 cm Mörser 10 was commissioned for mass production, a small test series of 21 cm Versuchmörser 06 ("test mortar") was given to the German army. Eight pieces equipped two batteries, but their range of only 7 km was found insufficient, so the range was increased for the production version. Serial number 3 of these rare pieces is now exposed at Red Cliffs, Victoria.[1]
216 were in service at the beginning of the war.[2] It was replaced by the 21 cm Mörser 16, which was also known as the langer 21 cm Mörser since it was merely a lighter 21 cm Mrs 10 with a longer barrel for extra range and other refinements.
The specifications provided for this weapon by difference sources are contradictory and, thus, those given here cannot be regarded as authoritative.
Gallery
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21 cm Versuchsmörser 06
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21 cm Mörser 10, July 1915
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A 21 cm Mörser carriage being transported.
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A 21 cm Mörser barrel being transported.
See also
- Isis District War Memorial in Childers, Queensland, Australia, where a surviving 21 cm Mörser 10 engraved with "Nr 406 - Fried Krupp AG, Essen - 1916" is now located, having been captured by the Australian Army in Flanders.[3][4][5]
Weapons of comparable role, performance and era
- BL 8 inch Howitzer Mk I – V British equivalent firing slightly lighter shell
References
- Hogg, Ian. Twentieth-Century Artillery. New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 2000 Шаблон:ISBN
- Jäger, Herbert. German Artillery of World War One. Ramsbury, Marlborough, Wiltshire: Crowood Press, 2001 Шаблон:ISBN
Notes
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Jäger, p. 29
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite news
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
Further reading
- Шаблон:In lang Guy François, "Le Mörser de calibre 21 cm", Tank Zone, issue 11/2010, June–July, pp. 46–53, Hachette Histoire et Collections
External links
- Video clips on YouTube
- List and pictures of WW1 surviving 21cm morsers 10
- Obús Krupp 210 mm 10/16 La Gran Guerra 1914-1918
- The Spandau Citadel Museum has an exemplar in travel position
