Tags: Weapon.
The Mortier de 280 modèle 1914 Schneider was a French siege howitzer manufactured in small numbers by the Schneider et Cie company used during World War I. Used primarily by France fewer than forty were sold to Russia and took part in the fighting on the Eastern Front the Russian Civil War and the subsequent Polish-Bolshevik War. In Imperial Russia it was initially known as 11 inch siege mortar model 1912 (Russian: 11 дм. осадная мортира обр.