The following WWII report on the German 105-mm medium artillery gun was originally printed in Tactical and Technical Trends, No. 12, November 19, 1942. [DISCLAIMER: The following text is taken from the U.S. War Department publication Tactical and Technical Trends. As with all wartime intelligence information, data may be incomplete or inaccurate. No attempt has been made to update or correct the text. Any views or opinions expressed do not necessarily represent those of the website.]

GERMAN 105-MM GUN A recent report on the German 105-mm gun, called the 10-cm Kanone 18, gives some details not included in the summary of German weapons in Tactical and Technical Trends, No. 9, p. 46. This gun is a standard medium artillery piece, and the split-trail carriage is the same as that used with another German medium artillery weapon, the 150-mm howitzer. It may be either horse-drawn or split into two loads and motor-drawn. Other characteristics are as follows: Rate of fire         6 rpm Length of bore 40 cals Weight in action 11,220 lbs Elevation -3° to +50° Traverse 60° Weight of HE shell 33 1/2 lbs The ballistic characteristics for the HE shell are given in the following table:         Maximum       Time of       50% Zone (yds) Charge Range (yds) Flight (secs) Length       Breadth Small       13,800       52       106       17 Medium 17,200 62 117 20 Large 20,600 70 128 22 The figure 208 was originally reported for the "50%, zone, length, large charge," but 128 has been substituted as being more probable.

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