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Country of Origin	Germany
Type	Field Gun
Caliber	173.000 mm
Length	8.530 m
Weight	17520.000 kg
Ammunition Weight	62.80 kg
Range	29.600 km
Muzzle Velocity	925 m/s

Contributor: C. Peter Chen

ww2dbaseThe German 17 cm Kanone 18 heavy howitzers (17 cm K 18 for short), built by Krupp and Hannoversche Maschinenbau, were heavy corps-level guns. In the field, they delivered great damage, but they also had a great disadvantage of requiring a long period of time to tear down for transport, thus during the latter part of the war many of the K 18 crews sabotaged their own guns in the face of advancing Allied and Soviet forces to prevent capture; many examples were indeed captured.

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Last Major Revision: Aug 2012

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