Mountain gun
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Mountain guns are artillery 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 tran
P. Lykoudis's original 1891 dismantleable breechloading gun with recoil control
80 mm French mountain gun with a 59-kilogram (130 lb) air mine attached c. 1915
Norwegian 6-pounder muzzle-loading mountain cannon of 1848
British Indian Army crew assembles a 2.5 inch muzzle-loading "screw gun" c. 1895
The 75 mm Schneider-Danglis 06/09 was a 75mm mountain gun used by multiple countries prior to, during and after World War I.
Mountain gun
…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 They are largely outdated, their role being filled by howitzers, mortars…
Greek 75 mm Schneider Danglis
Schneider-Danglis in action, during the Greco-Italian war disassembled and loaded on mules.
Schneider-Danglis in asia minor during Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)