The French 75 mm field gun was a quick-firing field artillery piece adopted in March 1898. Its official French designation was: Matériel de 75mm Mle 1897. It was commonly known as the French 75 simply the 75 and Soixante-Quinze (French for 75 literally Sixty-Fifteen). Initially the French 75 had been designed as an anti-personnel weapon system for delivering large volumes of time-fused shrapnel shells on enemy troops advancing in the open.
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weight (kg)
1.544e+06
origin
French Third Republic
type
Field gun
used in war
Boxer Rebellion, World War II, World War I, Spanish Civil War, French colonial empire, Polish–Soviet War, Second Melillan campaign
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