The Type 38 15 cm Howitzer (三八式十五糎榴弾砲 Sanhachi-shiki Jyūgo-senchi Ryūdanhō) was a 1905 German design that was purchased by the Empire of Japan as the standard heavy howitzer of the Imperial Japanese Army at the end of the Russo-Japanese War. The Type 38 designation was given to this gun as it was accepted in the 38th year of Emperor Meiji’s reign (1905).
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weight (kg)
2.25e+06
origin
German Empire, Empire of Japan
type
Howitzer
used in war
World War II, Second Sino-Japanese War, World War I, Soviet–Japanese border conflicts
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