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The M1875 mountain gun is a mountain gun that was used by the United States Army during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.. A Hotchkiss design from the French arms firm, Hotchkiss & Company founded by Benjamin B. Hotchkiss, (1826–1885), "it was the first original breech-loading gun in the U.S. Army". [2]
The standard Model 625 Mountain Gun fires .45 Colt through a 4-inch (102 mm) barrel. In 2001, a limited edition was also built by the Smith & Wesson Performance Center that uses .45 ACP ammunition. Both of these revolvers have adjustable rear sights and Hogue rubber grips.
The first designs of modern breechloading mountain guns with recoil control and the capacity to 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.
Mountain artillery, which includes pack howitzers, mountain howitzers and mountain guns, is designed to accompany mountain infantry forces.Usually lightweight and designed to be broken down to be portable by pack animals or even soldiers, they often are in limited calibres with low muzzle energy.
The Mountain Gun was introduced in 1989 as a lightweight version of the Model 29 designed to be "carried often and shot little". [9] The barrel profile is a reprise of the original design. Early version 29-4 backpacker with 2.5" barrel (very rare).
The 76 mm Mountain Gun Model 1909 was a breech-loaded howitzer made of steel with an interrupted screw breech and used fixed quick-fire ammunition. It had a box trail carriage, gun shield , two wooden-spoked steel-rimmed wheels, and a hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism.
In addition, there was a folding Gun shield fitted on some (perhaps many) such guns. [7] A revised version of this gun was released as the Škoda 75 mm Model 1928. The Germans bought some guns during World War I, but used them as infantry guns in direct support of the infantry, as their light weight would allow them to move with the infantry ...
Restored gun is displayed at Firepower, the Royal Artillery Museum. Woolwich London; Two guns are displayed at Fort Charles, Port Royal, Jamaica; Two 2.5-inch (64 mm) RMLs on Field carriages and one on a Mountain carriage, at Fort Klapperkop Military Museum, Pretoria, South Africa. One gun at the National Military Museum, Romania, Bucharest