The Type 38 75 mm Field Gun (三八式野砲 Sanhachi-shiki yahō) was a 1905 German design which was purchased by the Empire of Japan as the standard field gun 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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height (cm)
1.2192
length (km)
5.2
weight (kg)
947000.0
width (mm)
1.2192
origin
Empire of Japan
type
Field gun
used in war
World War II, Second Sino-Japanese War, World War I, Soviet–Japanese border conflicts
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