37 mm trench gun M1915

37-mm trench gun M1915
37 mm trench gun M1915
Type	Infantry support gun
Specifications
Mass	180.1 kg (397 lbs)
Barrel length	19 calibers

Caliber	37 mm (1.45 in)
Recoil	none
Elevation	-5° to +15°
Traverse	90°

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37-mm trench gun M1915 (Template:Lang-ru) was a Russian battalion gun employed in World War I.

With World War I switching into a trench warfare phase late in 1914, a need for a highly mobile artillery system to be used against enemy machine gun emplacements and other strongpoints became apparent. In 1915 colonel M. F. Rosenberg, a member of the Artillery Committee, developed such a weapon. The gun was compact enough to fit into machine gun emplacements. It weighed only about 180 kg and could be dismantled into three pieces - barrel (about 74 kg), carriage (82 kg) and wheels (25 kg), making it easy to move around. To protect the crew from enemy fire, the gun was equipped with a shield 6 or 8 mm thick. The weapon was sufficiently accurate at ranges of up to roughly 1 mile or about 1.6 km—this was earlier set out as 1,000-1,200 paces, and a pace is normally the height of the person walking, so this is not a uniform measure.

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Artillery

Infantry guns	37 mm trench gun M1915 37 mm McClean Automatic Cannon Mk. III
Field Artillery	76 mm gun M1900 76 mm divisional gun M1902 87 mm light field gun M1877 42-line field gun M1877 107 mm gun M1910 QF 4.5-inch howitzer 120 mm howitzer Model 1901 122 mm howitzer M1909 122 mm howitzer M1910
Mountain artillery	76 mm mountain gun M1909
Howitzers, medium, and heavy artillery	BL 60-pounder gun 152 mm howitzer M1909 152 mm howitzer M1910 BL 6-inch 26 cwt howitzer 152 mm siege gun M1910 BL 8-inch howitzer Mk VI – VIII
Siege artillery	42-line siege gun M1877 6 inch siege gun M1877 6-inch siege gun M1904 8-inch mortar M1877 9-inch mortar M1877 11-inch mortar M1877 11-inch gun M1877 280 mm Schneider Mortar Model 1914/15 BL 9.2-inch howitzer 305 mm howitzer M1915
Mortars	9 cm Mortar Type GR Aasen mortar
Anti-aircraft guns	76 mm air-defense gun M1914/15
Coastal artillery	Obukhovskii 12-inch/52-caliber Pattern 1907 gun