152 mm howitzer-gun M1937 (ML-20)
The 152 mm howitzer-gun M1937 (ML-20), is a Soviet heavy gun-howitzer. The gun was developed by the design bureau of the plant no 172, headed by F. F. Petrov, as a deep upgrade of the 152-mm gun M1910/34, in turn based on the 152-mm siege gun M1910, a pre-World War I design by Schneider. It was in production from 1937 to 1946. The ML-20 saw action in World War II, mainly as a corps / army level artillery piece of the Soviet Army. Captured guns were employed by Wehrmacht and the Finnish Army. Post World War II, the ML-20 saw combat in numerous conflicts during the mid to late twentieth century.
ML-20 in museum "The Smolensk Region in the years of Great Patriotic War", Smolensk.
ML-20 in traveling position, displayed at the US Army Ordnance Museum; note spoked wheels.
ML-20 in Poznań Citadel, Poland.
ML-20 in Hämeenlinna Artillery Museum, Finland.
152-mm gun model 1910/34 was a Soviet 152.4 mm (6 inch) heavy gun, a modernization of the 152-mm gun M1910/30, which in turn was based on 152-mm siege gun M1910.
152-mm gun M1910/34 in the Artillery Museum, St Petersburg, Russia