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Originally Posted by zastava128
75mm Czech Škoda M.28 mountain gun - unit 54 in the OOB
80mm Austro-Hungarian M.5/8 field gun
80mm Czech Škoda M.28 mountain gun - unit 133 in the OOB
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Do you have any details, especially range and barrel length of 75 mm M.28? What bothers me, is a coincidence in designation with 80 mm gun, which was also a mountain gun, but with a barrel L/40 and a very decent range 13.1 km. According to Chamberlain, M.28 was manufactured in two versions: 76.5mm for Yugoslavia and 75mm for Romania, also unspecified variant was used in Czechoslovakia.
And another question is, if it was really used as infantry gun (directly supporting infantry). Unit 54 has a limited on-map range.
By the way, M.5/8 gun was Skoda as well, and also could be broken down and used as mountain gun.
According to Chamberlain, also more modern 80mm Skoda M.17 mountain gun was used (range 11.4km).
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As an off-topic, since I can't send you a private message: do you know what camouflage was used on captured Somua tanks? I can only find a photo of a tank upgunned wih 6pdr, which shows only a flag on a turret, but no camouflage. Also, are there any photos of partisan Autoblinda or Sdkfz-222 with markings? - I'm asking for a sake of my colour pictures.
Regards
Michal