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Massimo_Foti · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:24 pm Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

The artillery display is very cool (I knew, since I was there first almost 20 years ago) but the temp display with prototypes gave me a great opportunity to see unique pieces:

8 cm Feldkanone Mgg prototype by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

Massimo_Foti · Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2012 9:34 pm Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

7 cm Kustenkanone M 1898 by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

Massimo_Foti · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 10:21 am Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

9 cm Feldkanone 1917 prototype by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

Massimo_Foti · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:21 am Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

10.4 cm Gebirgshaubitze 1912 Skoda prototype by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

Massimo_Foti · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 1:34 pm Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

15 cm M 15/16 by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

During WW I Skoda build 44 guns and 43 carriages for the Austro-Hungarian Army. At the end of WW I Italy captured 30 full systems. Some of them were used by the Italian Army in WW II (one is at de Henriquez Museum, in Trieste).
At least one was captured by the Romanian Army at the end of WW I and can be seen in Bucharest:
www.flickr.com/photos/...595717860/

Massimo_Foti · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:03 pm Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

24 cm M 1898 by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

Massimo_Foti · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:22 pm Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

From a Belgian fort in Antwerp. It was hit by an Austro-Hungarian 30,5 cm Mörser M 1911.
At the beginning of WW I the German Army was afraid of the Belgian forts. So they asked the Austro-Hungarian Army to help destroying them with their powerful and mobile heavy mortars.

Antwerp turret by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

Massimo_Foti · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:23 pm Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

The mortars used against Antwerp were of this kind:
www.flickr.com/photos/...4595717860

Massimo

Massimo_Foti · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:35 pm Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

38 cm M 16 by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

Massimo_Foti · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 4:14 pm Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

I wasn't aware Bohler made a 44mm before evolving its design into the very popular 47mm

44 mm Bohler by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

JG300-Ascout · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:31 pm Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

- Massimo_Foti

38 cm M 16 by Massimo Foti, on Flickr

Is that a Skoda, and basically the same 380 that's on the railcar at Bucharest ("Barbara" or "Gudrun"...I forget which is which)? I see some basic similarities...I think.

Massimo_Foti · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 8:39 pm Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

Yes, it's Gudrun's sibling:
www.flickr.com/photos/...4595717860

Massimo

JG300-Ascout · Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2012 11:59 pm Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

Thx...thought so. I took a lot of pics of those two girls at Bucharest (fall and winter is best, as the trees around them are naked then).

Massimo_Foti · Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2012 6:10 am Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

Yes, I would love to go back to Bucharest in fall/winter to avoid the vegetation, but I am afraid of two things:

1) You need good weather
2) You'll miss the tomatoes and zucchinis behind the tanks:
www.flickr.com/photos/...4595717860

Smile

Massimo

Doug_Kibbey · Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2012 3:27 pm Post subject: Re: Wien. Military Museum

- Massimo_Foti

Yes, I would love to go back to Bucharest in fall/winter to avoid the vegetation, but I am afraid of two things:

1) You need good weather
2) You'll miss the tomatoes and zucchinis behind the tanks:
www.flickr.com/photos/...4595717860

Massimo

At the very least you should be taking a loaf of bread, some mayonnaise. salt and pepper. Wink