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65 mm Mle 1906 mountain gun Canon de montagne de 65 mm Modèle 1906
The French 65 mm mountain gun model 1906, official French designation Canon de montagne Mle 1906, succeeded to the older designed 80 mm de Bange mountain gun model 1878, officially known as Canon de 80 mm de montagne Mle 1878.
Canon de 80 mm de montagne Mle 1878
Like its counterparts, this type of guns was more often used as a light gun as well in North-Africa as in the other French colonies. The naval museum in Haifa (Israel) exhibit is showing an excellent state of conservation albeit missing the rear section of the trail.
Canon de montagne de 65 mm Mle 1906 [KOSAR (Franz) - Leichte Feldgeschütze.]
Only 120 guns were made before world war I and in spite of it’s very unusual recoil
system, was put back in production and remained in service well into the 1920s. Some
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