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	\|name=10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15		\|name=10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15
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	\|caption=10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15 at the ] Wien.		\|caption=10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15 at the ] Wien.
	\|origin=Austria-Hungary		\|origin=Austria-Hungary
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	\|service=~~1916-1945~~		\|service=1916–1945
	\|used_by=~~{{flag\|~~Austria-Hungary}}<br />~~{{flag\|~~Nazi Germany}}<br />~~{{flag\|~~Italy~~\|1861}}~~		\|used_by=]<br />]<br />]<br>]
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	\|design_date=1909-1914		\|design_date=1909-1914
	\|manufacturer=]		\|manufacturer=]
	\|production_date=~~1914-1918~~		\|production_date=1914–1918
	\|number=577?		\|number=577?
	\|variants=Cannone da 105/32		\|variants=Cannone da 105/32
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			\|cartridge=Separate loading, ] and projectile<br>104 x 580mm R<br>{{convert\|16.1\|kg\|lboz}}<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.quarryhs.co.uk/ammotable11.html\|title=Ammotable 11\|website=www.quarryhs.co.uk\|access-date=2017-09-03\|archive-date=2015-02-26\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150226010317/http://www.quarryhs.co.uk/ammotable11.html\|url-status=dead}}</ref>
	\|cartridge={{convert\|16.1\|kg\|lboz}}
	\|caliber=105 mm (4.13 in)		\|caliber=Italian variant: 105 mm (4.13 in)
	\|action=		\|action=
	\|rate=3-4 rpm		\|rate=3-4 rpm
	\|velocity=668 m/s (2,191 ft/s)		\|velocity=668 m/s (2,191 ft/s)
	\|range=		\|range=
			\|max_range={{convert\|12,700\|m\|yd\|abbr=on}}<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.regioesercito.it/armi/104-32.htm\|title=Regio Esercito - Materiale bellico - Cannone da 104/32\|access-date=2023-03-26\|archive-date=2008-09-25\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925071612/http://www.regioesercito.it/armi/104-32.htm\|url-status=live}}</ref>
	\|max_range={{convert\|16,200\|m\|yd\|abbr=on}}{{citation needed\|date=May 2013}}
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	\|carriage=box trail		\|carriage=]
	\|elevation=-10° to +30°		\|elevation=-10° to +30°
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			The '''10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15''' was a heavy ] used by ] in ].<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/history/at-kuk-artillery-1.htm\|title=Great War Artillery - Austria\|website=www.globalsecurity.org\|access-date=6 August 2023}}</ref> It was derived from the successful ] modified to fire high-velocity 104-mm projectiles.

			The 10.4 cm Feldkanone M.15 served the same role for the Austro-Hungarian Army as the ] gun did for the Germans, but was 3 tons heavier and the barrel had to be removed in order to be transported by horse and wagon. Approximately 577 were produced by Skoda and MAVAG. These guns were deployed at all fronts, including Palestine. The M.15 was considered a good artillery piece, but the weight prohibited rapid deployment. The breech used a sliding wedge and they were equipped with spring reuperators and hydraulic recoil.<ref>{{cite web \| last=Clelland \| first=Charlie\|title=10.4cm Kanone M.15 \| website=Landships II \| url=http://www.landships.info/landships/artillery_articles/10cm_Kanone_m15.html \| access-date=6 August 2023}}</ref>
	The '''10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15''' was a heavy field gun used by ] in ]. Guns captured or turned over to ] as reparations after World War I were taken into Italian service as the Cannone da 105/32 and were bored out to 105 mm to fit Italian ammunition. It was one of the principal Italian long-range guns in World War II and saw service in North Africa and Russia. Those few guns that were captured from the Italians by the Germans after the Italian surrender in 1943 were designated as 10.5 cm Kanone 320(i). It doesn't seem to have seen service with any of the Austro-Hungarian successor states after World War I.

			Because the gun was too heavy to be drawn by the usual field artillery team of six horses, for transport it broke down into the two loads, with the barrel being carried on a separate carriage.<ref name ="qldwarmemorials">{{cite web \|url=https://www.qldwarmemorials.com.au/memorial?id=266 \|title=Brisbane Grammar School WWI War Trophy \|author=<!--Not stated--> \|date=16 September 2015 \|website=www.qldwarmemorials.com.au \|publisher=The State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Science) \|access-date=11 January 2021 \|archive-date=28 November 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201128195254/https://www.qldwarmemorials.com.au/memorial?id=266 \|url-status=live }}</ref>
	For transport it broke down into the customary two loads. And it carried the customary two seats on the gun shield for crewmen. All data given herein is for the Italian version of the gun.

			An example of one of the transport wagons is preserved at ] in ], Australia, which had been taken from the ] at the ] in 1918 and was donated to the school in 1921 by Brigadier General ], a former pupil. The barrel is mounted on its ''Rohrwagen'' or transport carriage rather than the ] it would have been fired from. It was restored in 1996 by the South Queensland Logistics Group.<ref name ="qldwarmemorials"/>
⚫	A rusting 10.4 cm Skoda was found in the ] mountains in the year 2000, where it supposed it was dueling an Italian ] during the First World War.<ref></ref><ref>, Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Provincia autonoma di Trento</ref> Found at 3171 meters altitude, the gun came completely out of the glacier in the very warm summer of 2003. Because it was located on a 45 degree slope, the risk of it sliding down was considered too great, so the gun was relocated by lifting it with a ] helicopter.<ref>, Museo della Guerra Bianca in Adamello</ref>

			Four guns were used by Poland during the ].<ref name=konstankiewicz>Konstankiewicz, Andrzej (2003). ''Broń strzelecka i sprzęt artyleryjski formacji polskich i Wojska Polskiego w latach 1914-1939'', Lublin. p. 53. {{ISBN\|83-227-1944-2}}. {{in lang\|pl}}</ref>
⚫	== References ==
⚫	{{reflist}}
⚫	* Gander, Terry and Chamberlain, Peter. ''Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945''. New York: Doubleday, 1979 ISBN 0-385-15090-3
⚫	* Ortner, M. Christian. ''The Austro-Hungarian Artillery From 1867 to 1918: Technology, Organization, and Tactics''. Vienna, Verlag Militaria, 2007 ISBN 978-3-902526-13-7

			Guns captured or turned over to ] as reparations after World War I were taken into Italian service as the Cannone da 105/32 and were bored out to 105 mm to fit Italian ammunition. 260 M.14 and M.15 guns were recovered by the Italians after the ], of which 70 were scrapped. It was one of the principal Italian long-range guns in World War II and saw service in North Africa, Russia, and Sicily. It also saw use during the ]. The Italians found that it did not compare favorably to the ] due to the heavier weight, especially in Ukraine. Four guns were used by the ] in 1943.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.italie1935-45.com/RE/photoscopes/photoscopecannone105-32.html\|title=photoscopecannone105-32\|date=16 June 2008\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080616180558/http://www.italie1935-45.com/RE/photoscopes/photoscopecannone105-32.html \|accessdate=6 August 2023\|archive-date=16 June 2008 }}</ref> The German army gave captured weapons the designation 10.5cm K 320(i).<ref>{{Cite web\|url=https://www.axishistory.com/other-aspects/138-equipment/equipment/2242-light-a-medium-artillery\|title=Light & Medium Artillery\|website=www.axishistory.com\|accessdate=6 August 2023}}</ref>
	==External links==

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			] as a war memorial.]]
	* http://old.vhu.cz/cs/stranka/sbirkovefondy%2520vhu/10-4cm-polni-kanon-vz--15-&usg=ALkJrhiZc9vZe1HfpsTh6l0Ado5M4sZM6w

		⚫	A rusting 10.4 cm Skoda was found in the ] mountains in the year 2000, where it supposed it was dueling an Italian ] during the First World War.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=http://www.guerrabianca.org/html/artiglieria3.htm# \|title=Il grande cannone della Presanella - di Mauro Zattera \|access-date=2013-09-05 \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130905222712/http://www.guerrabianca.org/html/artiglieria3.htm# \|archive-date=2013-09-05 \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref> {{Webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220203527/http://www.trentinograndeguerra.it/context.jsp?ID_LINK=112&area=10&id_context=787 \|date=2013-12-20 }}, Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Provincia autonoma di Trento</ref> Found at 3171 meters altitude, the gun came completely out of the glacier in the very warm summer of 2003. Because it was located on a 45 degree slope, the risk of it sliding down was considered too great, so the gun was relocated by lifting it with a ] helicopter.<ref> {{Webarchive\|url=https://archive.today/20120906103323/http://www.museoguerrabianca.it/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=108&Itemid=188 \|date=2012-09-06 }}, Museo della Guerra Bianca in Adamello</ref>

		⚫	==References==
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			==Bibliography==
		⚫	* Gander, Terry and Chamberlain, Peter. ''Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945''. New York: Doubleday, 1979 {{ISBN\|0-385-15090-3}}
		⚫	* Ortner, M. Christian. ''The Austro-Hungarian Artillery From 1867 to 1918: Technology, Organization, and Tactics''. Vienna, Verlag Militaria, 2007 {{ISBN\|978-3-902526-13-7}}
			*

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Field gun

10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15
10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15 at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien.
Type	Field gun
Place of origin	Austria-Hungary
Service history
In service	1916–1945
Used by	Austria-Hungary Nazi Germany Kingdom of Italy Second Polish Republic
Wars	World War I World War II
Production history
Designer	Skoda
Designed	1909-1914
Manufacturer	Skoda
Produced	1914–1918
No. built	577?
Variants	Cannone da 105/32
Specifications
Mass	3,030 kg (6,680 lb)
Barrel length	3.64 m (11 ft 11 in) L/35

Shell	Separate loading, cased charge and projectile 104 x 580mm R 16.1 kilograms (35 lb 8 oz)
Caliber	Italian variant: 105 mm (4.13 in)
Carriage	box trail
Elevation	-10° to +30°
Traverse	6°
Rate of fire	3-4 rpm
Muzzle velocity	668 m/s (2,191 ft/s)
Maximum firing range	12,700 m (13,900 yd)

The 10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15 was a heavy field gun used by Austria-Hungary in World War I. It was derived from the successful 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze M 14 modified to fire high-velocity 104-mm projectiles.

The 10.4 cm Feldkanone M.15 served the same role for the Austro-Hungarian Army as the 10 cm K 14 gun did for the Germans, but was 3 tons heavier and the barrel had to be removed in order to be transported by horse and wagon. Approximately 577 were produced by Skoda and MAVAG. These guns were deployed at all fronts, including Palestine. The M.15 was considered a good artillery piece, but the weight prohibited rapid deployment. The breech used a sliding wedge and they were equipped with spring reuperators and hydraulic recoil.

Because the gun was too heavy to be drawn by the usual field artillery team of six horses, for transport it broke down into the two loads, with the barrel being carried on a separate carriage.

An example of one of the transport wagons is preserved at Brisbane Grammar School in Queensland, Australia, which had been taken from the Ottoman Army at the Capture of Jenin in 1918 and was donated to the school in 1921 by Brigadier General Lachlan Chisholm Wilson, a former pupil. The barrel is mounted on its Rohrwagen or transport carriage rather than the gun carriage it would have been fired from. It was restored in 1996 by the South Queensland Logistics Group.

Four guns were used by Poland during the Polish-Soviet war.

Guns captured or turned over to Italy as reparations after World War I were taken into Italian service as the Cannone da 105/32 and were bored out to 105 mm to fit Italian ammunition. 260 M.14 and M.15 guns were recovered by the Italians after the Battle of Vittorio Veneto, of which 70 were scrapped. It was one of the principal Italian long-range guns in World War II and saw service in North Africa, Russia, and Sicily. It also saw use during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War. The Italians found that it did not compare favorably to the Canone de 105/28 due to the heavier weight, especially in Ukraine. Four guns were used by the Italian Social Republic in 1943. The German army gave captured weapons the designation 10.5cm K 320(i).

A rusting 10.4 cm Skoda was found in the Presanella mountains in the year 2000, where it supposed it was dueling an Italian 149/23 during the First World War. Found at 3171 meters altitude, the gun came completely out of the glacier in the very warm summer of 2003. Because it was located on a 45 degree slope, the risk of it sliding down was considered too great, so the gun was relocated by lifting it with a Superpuma helicopter.

References

"Ammotable 11". www.quarryhs.co.uk. Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
"Regio Esercito - Materiale bellico - Cannone da 104/32". Archived from the original on 25 September 2008. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
"Great War Artillery - Austria". www.globalsecurity.org. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
Clelland, Charlie. "10.4cm Kanone M.15". Landships II. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ "Brisbane Grammar School WWI War Trophy". www.qldwarmemorials.com.au. The State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Science). 16 September 2015. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
Konstankiewicz, Andrzej (2003). Broń strzelecka i sprzęt artyleryjski formacji polskich i Wojska Polskiego w latach 1914-1939, Lublin. p. 53. ISBN 83-227-1944-2. (in Polish)
"photoscopecannone105-32". 16 June 2008. Archived from the original on 16 June 2008. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
"Light & Medium Artillery". www.axishistory.com. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
"Il grande cannone della Presanella - di Mauro Zattera". Archived from the original on 5 September 2013. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
Restauro Cannone Skoda 10.4 Archived 2013-12-20 at the Wayback Machine, Museo Storico Italiano della Guerra, Provincia autonoma di Trento
Il recupero del cannone 10.4 Skoda Archived 2012-09-06 at archive.today, Museo della Guerra Bianca in Adamello

Bibliography

Gander, Terry and Chamberlain, Peter. Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945. New York: Doubleday, 1979 ISBN 0-385-15090-3
Ortner, M. Christian. The Austro-Hungarian Artillery From 1867 to 1918: Technology, Organization, and Tactics. Vienna, Verlag Militaria, 2007 ISBN 978-3-902526-13-7
Regio Esercito - Materiale bellico - Cannone da 104/32

v t e Austro-Hungarian artillery of World War I
Infantry and mountain	3.7 cm Infanteriegeschütz M.15 7 cm Gebirgsgeschütz M 75 7 cm Gebirgsgeschütz M 99 7.5 cm Gebirgsgeschütz 15 Škoda 7.5 cm d/29 Model 1911 10 cm Gebirgshaubitze M 99 10 cm Gebirgshaubitze M 8 10 cm Gebirgshaubitze M 16
Mortars	8 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15 9 cm Minenwerfer M 14 9.15 cm leichtes Minenwerfer System Lanz 9 cm Minenwerfer M 17 10.5 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15 12 cm Minenwerfer M 15 12 cm Luftminenwerfer M 16 14 cm Minenwerfer M 15 15 cm Luftminenwerfer M 15 M. E. 20 cm Luftminenwerfer M 16 22.5 cm Minenwerfer M 15 26 cm Minenwerfer M 17
Field, medium and heavy	8 cm FK M 99 8 cm FK M. 5 8 cm FK M. 17 8 cm FK M 18 9 cm FK M 75/96 10 cm FH M 99 10 cm Feldhaubitze M. 14 10.4 cm Feldkanone M. 15 15 cm sFH M 94 15 cm sFH M 14 15 cm sFH M.15 15 cm Autokanone M. 15/16
Superheavy and siege	12-cm Kanone M 80 15 cm Mörser M 80 15 cm Kanone M 80 18 cm kurze Kanone M 80 21 cm Mörser M. 16/18 24 cm Mörser M 98 24 cm Kanone M. 16 30.5 cm Mörser M. 11 30.5 cm Mörser M. 16 35 cm Marinekanone L/45 M. 16 38 cm Belagerungshaubitze M 16 42 cm Haubitze M. 14/16

v t e Italian artillery of World War I
Anti-aircraft guns	Cannone da 76/45 S 1911 Cannone da 75/27 A.V.
Field, Medium and Heavy guns	Cannone da 75/27 modello 06 Cannone da 75/27 modello 12 Cannone da 75/27 modello 11 8 cm FK M. 5 Obice da 100/17 modello 14 Obice da 105/14 Cannone da 105/28 Cannone da 105/32 Obice da 149/12 Cannone da 149/23 Cannone da 149/35 A Cannone da 152/45
Mortars	Bombarda da 58 A Bombarda da 58 B 15 cm Mörser M1881 Bombarda da 240 mm
Infantry and Mountain guns	Cannon 37F Cannone da 65/17 modello 13 Cannone da 76/17 S modello 12 Cannone da 70/15
Naval and coastal defense guns	Cannon 76/40 Model 1916 Cannone da 76/45 S 1911 Cannon 102/35 Model 1914 Cannon 102/45 Cannon 152/32 Model 1887 Cannone da 190/45 EOC 8 inch 45 caliber EOC 10 inch 40 caliber EOC 10-inch /45 naval gun Obice da 280 305 mm /46 Model 1909 100-ton gun BL 13.5 inch naval gun Mk I – IV Cannone navale da 381/40
Railroad artillery	Cannone da 381/40 AVS
Superheavy and Siege artillery	Mortaio da 210/8 D.S. Mortaio da 210/9 modello 14 Mortaio da 260/9 Modello 16 Obice da 280 Obice da 305/17

v t e Italian artillery of World War II
Tank guns	Breda Model 35 Cannone da 37/40 Cannone da 47/32 Cannone da 47/40 Cannone da 75/34
Anti-tank guns	Solothurn S-18/1000 Cannone da 47/32 Obice da 75/18 modello 35 Cannone da 75/46 C.A. modello 34 Cannone da 90/53 Cannone da 105/25
Infantry and Mountain guns	Cannone da 37/10 modello 15 Cannone da 47/32 Cannone da 65/17 modello 13 Cannone da 70/15 Obice da 75/18 modello 34
Field, Medium and Heavy guns	Cannone da 75/27 modello 06 Cannone da 75/27 modello 12 Cannone da 75/27 modello 11 Obice da 75/18 modello 35 Cannone da 75/32 modello 37 Cannone da 76/17 S modello 12 Obice da 100/17 modello 14 Obice da 105/14 Cannone da 105/28 Cannone da 105/32 Obice da 149/12 Cannone da 149/28 Cannone da 149/35 A Cannone da 149/40 modello 35 Obice da 149/19 modello 37 Cannone da 152/45 Obice da 210/22
Superheavy and Siege artillery	Mortaio da 210/8 D.S. Mortaio da 260/9 Modello 16 Obice da 280 Obice da 305/17
Railroad artillery	Cannone navale da 381/40
Anti-aircraft guns	Cannone-Mitragliera da 20/77 (Scotti) Breda Model 35 Cannone-Mitragliera da 37/54 (Breda) Cannone da 75/27 A.V. Cannone da 75/46 C.A. modello 34 Cannone da 75/49 Cannone da 90/53

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