Product Description
- The 75mm howitzer M1A1 Packhauser is a United States howitzer.
- This gun was originally developed as a mountain gun to be operated with a payload, and was adopted by the US Army in 1927.
- Financial problems slowed production, with only 91 guns produced by 1940.
- However, with the outbreak of World War II, mass production began in September 1940.
- Production continued until December 1944, with a total of 5,288 guns produced.
- Many variants of this gun system have been developed depending on the application.
- These variants all have the same barrel, recoil mechanism and breech, only the gun carriage is different.
- The feature of this gun is its flexible operation, which includes towing it with a 1/4 ton truck, transporting it by helicopter, and dropping it by parachute.
- Early M1 models could be loaded in six separate packages weighing between 73-107 kg each.
- Additionally, the airborne version of the M8 could be split into seven packages for loading or nine packages for airdrop, allowing it to be carried manually if necessary.
( This is a machine translation. Please allow for possible misinterpretations in the text. )
Item Size/Weight : 29 x 19 x 4.5 cm / 236g
Product Specifications
- Item code
- RC35001
- JAN code
- 4544032909659
Purchase Information
This item is limited to 3 per household.