64 100mm vz.16 FH - 202 - old Skoda mountain howitzer - according to
http://www.worldwar2.ro/arme/?article=327 only 7.7km
67 100mm vz.14 FH - 203 - Skoda = 200 (9.3km)
These are basically the same gun, both Skoda WW1 howitzers. Both had the same length gun tube and had at least 48 degrees maximum elevation (in fact the vz.16 had 70 degrees). The range with original Austrian ammo was probably closer to the 8 than 9 km, although there were different shells (light & heavy) for these guns even in WW1 before the Italians got their hands on them. SO, it's possible that the 7.7 km figure is with heavy and 9.3 km with the light shell.
Which reminds me:
Quote from Wikipedia.it (
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0k...z._1914/1916):
Quote:
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Il cannone da montagna (modello 16) era scomponibile in tre carichi per il traino animale su carrelli a due ruote, utilizzando una sola pariglia. Le altre differenze con il modello 14 erano date dalla bocca da fuoco ed affusto alleggeriti, dalla sala accorciata e dalle ruote di piccolo diametro per permettere il movimento su strade con carreggiata ridotta, culla con gli orecchioni arretrati (che quindi richiedeva equilibratori irrobustiti) e scudo scomponibile. Per la scomposizione del pezzo una squadra di 15 uomini impiegava circa 20 minuti[1].
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Original source is Filippo Cappellano: Le artiglierie del Regio Esercito nella Seconda Guerra Mondiale, Albertelli Edizioni Speciali, Parma 1998, ISBN 88-87372-03-9
The range given at Wikipedia.it (9800 m) is most likely with improved Italian 1930s ammunition.
About the 105/32 gun as modified by the Italians: max range was 13640 m. Max. range for the original Skoda 104mm gun was 12700 m according to Italian sources.
Hogg is a little hit and miss when it comes to anything not from the "big four" in WW2 (and some Soviet stuff as well), so I would take his numbers with a little grain of salt for anything not made in the US, UK or Germany. This is not to say he wasn't an excellent researcher, but he did make mistakes like everyone else.
And oh, first post on this forum. Just started to play SPWW2 again after a long pause and couldn't keep me eyes off the OOB files and do a "little" fact checking. Major time waster, almost worse than PowerPoint!
