L'un des trois exemples survivants de Škoda 30.5 cm Mörser M.11, les obusiers de siège lourds utilisés par l'Autriche-Hongrie sur ses fronts italien et oriental pendant la première Guerre mondiale, Et aussi par l'Allemagne nazie pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, exposé à l'extérieur du Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra (Musée italien d'histoire de la guerre) à Rovereto, Trentin-Haut-Adige, Italie. Il a tiré des coquilles de 305 mm (12 in) qui pourraient pénétrer dans le béton armé jusqu'à 2 m d'épaisseur, souffler un cratère de 8 m (26 ft) de large et de profondeur, et tuer des soldats ennemis jusqu'à 400 m (1,312 ft) de l'explosion.

• Contributeur: Terence Kerr / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2FKBYC5
• Taille du fichier: 17,4 MB (968,6 KB Téléchargement compressé)
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• Dimensions: 2012 x 3017 px | 17 x 25,5 cm | 6,7 x 10,1 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 10 juillet 2006
• Lieu: Piazza Podestà, Rovereto, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy.

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Rovereto, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy: outside the Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra (Italian War History Museum) stands a surviving example of the concrete-piercing Škoda 30.5 cm Mörser M.11 heavy siege howitzer used on the Italian and eastern fronts by Austria-Hungary in the 1914-18 First World War, and also by Nazi Germany in the 1939-45 Second World War. This artillery piece fired 305 mm (12 ins) shells that could penetrate reinforced concrete up to 2 m (6 ft 7ins) thick. It could either fire a delayed-action heavy armour-piercing shell, or a lighter shell designed to explode on impact. The light shell could blow a crater 8 m (26 ft) wide and 8 m deep, and the blast could kill infantrymen up to 400 m (1, 312 ft) away. The howitzer or Haublitze was designed for the Austro-Hungarian high command, who wanted a weapon able to penetrate concrete fortresses then being built in Belgium and Italy. It was developed from 1906-9 at the Škoda works in Pilsen, now in Czechia / Czech Republic. An initial 24 were ordered after the prototype was first fired in 1910, and in all, 79 were built. Each howitzer travelled in three sections on trailers pulled by an artillery tractor, but could be assembled and made ready to fire in about 50 minutes. It required a crew of 15 to 17 and could fire about 10 to 12 rounds per hour. Eight Mörsers loaned to the German Army were used early in the First World War to destroy rings of Belgian fortresses around Liège, Namur and Antwerp. Mörsers later saw action on the Eastern, Italian and Serbian fronts. In 1939, Nazi Germany seized 17 Mörsers from Czechoslovakia and gained five more after Yugoslavia’s defeat. They saw service against France, Poland and the Soviet Union. The howitzer at Rovereto is one of only three examples of the original M.11 model to survive, with the others in Belgrade and Bucharest. D0487.A5811

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