WW1 Artillery
Despite the advent of armored vehicles, bomber aircraft and portable machine guns, the old-fashioned artillery piece reigned supreme in World War 1.
As in wars prior, artillery of WW1 was a prerequisite for battlefield success. Artillery proved the number one threat to infantry and tanks alike and came in several light, medium and heavy forms. Additionally, field guns served in the direct line-of-sight role while mortars and howitzers allowed for indirect fire support. Any gun type fired shrapnel or high-explosive rounds at range - the most popular field gun proving to be the 75mm French Model 1897 which brought about use of an integrated recoil mechanism allowing for successive shots without the gun having to be relaid. However, the stalemate that was trench warfare soon limited the benefits of line-of-sight weapons until the breakthroughs later in the war.
There are a total of 14 WW1 Artillery Systems in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1914
The sFH 13 series heavy field howitzer was of German origin and saw combat throughout World War 1 and even into World War 2. ...
1915
The 6-inch 26 cwt howitzer was developed during World War 1 and was still in service at the beginning of World War 2. These w...
1916
The Imperial German Army adopted the 7.7cm FK 96 field gun in 1896 though this system was almost immediately made obsolete wi...
1896
Artillery firepower still reigned supreme over the battlefields of World War 1 despite the arrival of the aircraft and the "t...
1914
The Big Bertha was a German initiative put into action before and during the First World War, where artillery started becomin...
1913
In 1913, the Italian Army adopted a 65mm towed mountain gun artillery system intended for its specially trained mountain infa...
1906
Prior to World War 1, the Italian Army obtained a license production deal with the German concern of Krupp, makers of many ty...
1913
The Canon de 105 mle 1913 Schneider was a French artillery development with origins in a Russian Army 107mm design. Prior to ...
1917
The Canon de 155 C modele 1917 Schneider was a standardized French Army heavy field howitzer receiving its baptism of fire in...
1897
One of the finest artillery pieces of her time and the first "true" modern artillery system adopted by a national army was th...
1917
For all intents and purposes, the Gun "Carrier Mark 1" became the world's first self-propelled artillery (SPA) system. This s...
1918
The 155mm (6.10 in) field gun was originally designed and built by France during World War I under the direction of one Colo...
1905
The Type 38 Field Gun of the Imperial Japanese Army held origins dating back to a German Krupp design. Local-license producti...
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