The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Austrian mountain gun, no 1549 and carriage no 3006.
This was a light infantry support weapon with a range of up to 3 km. The weapon could be broken into three loads for transport, and fired a range of HE, HE/ Shrapnel and tracer fixed ammunition. This weapon was captured from the Turks at Rayak, Syria. This gun was afterwards mounted on a Ford car and used against the Turks in the attack on Aleppo by Lieut. Nunan 1st Sqn AFC.
Austrian 37mm infanteriegeschütz M.15. The gun has a rear tubular trail and two folding tubular front legs which when folded out, create a tripod. The gun is mounted on two wooden spoked wheels and w
Austrian 37mm infanteriegeschütz M.15, serial number 1484, carriage number 3019. The gun has a rear tubular trail and two folding tubular front legs which when folded out, create a tripod. The gun wea
Austrian-manufactured 10 cm M10 mountain howitzer. Bronze rifled barrel, mounted on a box trail. Its recoil is limited by an oil buffer and recuperation is effected by springs encircling the buffer
10.4 cm breech-loading gun barrel, on its two-wheeled transport limber. The limber supporting the barrel is constructed of sheet steel, rivetted to internal transoms, terminating in a towing eye. M
This model was introduced in 1934 as an improvement of the 75mm type 41 mountain gun. It was a modern design by WWII standards having a horizontal sliding breech block, split trails and hydropneumatic
The M2A2 105 millimetre howitzer is a general purpose, towed, light field artillery weapon which consists of a barrel, recoil mechanism and carriage. The barrel consists of a tube assembly, breech rin
