A C/64 gun on display at Peleș Castle

The Krupp C64 (sometimes C/64) steel, breech loaded field gun (8cm caliber, 4 kg[1] projectile, 3800m range)[2] was one of the main artillery pieces of the Prussians in the 1870–1871 war with France. It was superior to the French counterparts in every way: accuracy, rate of fire, range and reliability of the fuse.[3][2] The obturation, a big problem in earlier Krupp rifled breech loaders, was ensured by Broadwell ring design borrowed from American engineer Lewis Wells Broadwell.[4]

The C64 was the sole gun of the horse artillery units. Each unit comprised three batteries, each battery was equipped with six C64 guns, for a total of eighteen guns per unit. The foot artillery units had an equal mixture of C64 and the heavier C67 (six-pounder gun).[5]

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References

  1. ↑ Richard Wille (1873). Das Deutsche Feld-Artillerie-Material. Bath. p. 122.
  2. 1 2 Bruce I. Gudmundsson (1993). On Artillery –. p. 1.
  3. ↑ Michael Solka; Darko Pavlović (2004). German Armies 1870–71 (1): Prussia. Osprey Publishing. p. 41. ISBN 978-1-84176-754-3.
  4. ↑ "Reports on the Vienna Universal Exhibition of 1873: Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty". 1874.
  5. ↑ Michael Solka; Darko Pavlović (2004). German Armies 1870–71 (1): Prussia. Osprey Publishing. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-84176-754-3.
  6. ↑ Sauer, K.Th.von (1869). Atlas zum Grundriss der Waffenlehre. Munich: Literarisch-artistische Anstalt.
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