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By Lasse Jensen
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Last updated 18 Marts 2002
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149mm houfnice vzor 1933 (K1)
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General |
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| Designer |
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150mm Howitzer Md. 1934 -
Romanian
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| Original
Manufacture |
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Skoda, Czechoslovakia |
| Original
Manufacture name |
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149mm
houfnice vzor 1933 (K1) |
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| Is
this a license build gun? |
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no |
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| License
Manufacture |
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| Customer
Aim |
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Export |
| Prototype
naming |
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| Indented
country naming |
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Turkey, '149mm
model 1933'
Romanian, '150mm
How Md
1934'
Yugoslavian, '149mm model 1933' |
| Naming
variants |
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| reversion
models |
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149mm
houfnice vzor
1937 (K4) |
| Licenses
build variants |
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| Export
variants |
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| Nature
of weapon |
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Field
Howitzer |
| Introduction
date |
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| First
action date |
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| Production
time |
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| Production
number |
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| Crew |
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Gun
dimension |
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| Caliber,
bore |
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149.1mm |
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| Caliber,
length/bore |
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| Muzzle
brake |
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no |
| Recoil
system |
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Yes,
unknown |
| Breech
mechanism |
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| Barrel
length (all) |
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| Barrel
length (ex breech) |
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| Barrel
weight (all) |
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| Weight
(firing position) |
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| Weight
(traveling order) |
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| Length
(firing position) |
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| Length
(traveling order) |
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| Width
(firing position) |
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| Width
(traveling order) |
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| Height
(firing position) |
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| Height
(traveling order) |
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| Ground
Clearance (towing) |
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Gun
performers |
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| Traverse
Right |
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~° |
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| Traverse
Left |
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~° |
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| Elevation |
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~° |
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| Depression |
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~° |
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| Ammunition
types |
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~ -HE |
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| Maximum
Range |
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~ -HE |
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| Muzzle
velocity |
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~ -HE |
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| Rate
of Fire - 30s |
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| Rate
of Fire - 4m |
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| Rate
of Fire - 10m |
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| Rate
of Fire - 1h, sustained |
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Carriage |
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| Name |
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| Variants |
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| Shield |
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yes |
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| Weight |
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| Wheels
(if any) |
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yes |
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| Tyres
(if any) |
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yes, unknown type |
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Towing
vehicle |
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| Primary
type |
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| Trailer |
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 History
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In the early 1930s the Skoda works in
Pilsen, Czechoslovakia were in a position to design, develop and produce
entirely new artillery pieces that owed nothing to the old World War I
weapons that had been the company’s main output previously.
By 1933, the company had produced an entirely new 149mm range of Howitzer known as the “K” series. The first of these, the K1, was produced in
1933 and the entire output of these vz33 weapons went for export to
Turkey, Romania and Yugoslavia. The K1 was a thoroughly modern piece with
a heavy split trail and was designed for either horse or motorized
traction. For the latter, the piece could be towed as one load, but for
the former the barrel could be removed for towing as a separate load. The
K1 had solid rubber-rimmed steel wheels.
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More
Pictures
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| 150mm
Md. 34 - Romanian |
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| National
Military Museum, Romanian |
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References:
The
Atlantikwall website.
Jeffrey Goldstein -which quote
these sources;
Chris Bishop (ed), Encyclopedia of Weapons of World War II, Barnes &
Noble Press, 1998.
Ian Hogg, Twentieth-Century Artillery, Amber Books, 2000.
Additional web resources.
Various web notes.
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