What's new
British Ordnance Collectors Network

Join over 14,000 collectors of inert military ordnance. Get expert identification help for shells, fuzes, grenades, and more — plus access our classifieds marketplace and decades of archived knowledge. Free to register, takes seconds.

Austrian proyectil 37x57

malv.1982

Member
Hello everyone, I present in this opportunity, the Austrian projectile of the ww1 of 37x57 R, used in the cannon INFANTERIEGESCHÜTZ M.15.
Bib marked "GR (Georg Roth A.G. of Vienna.) S - 177 - 1917

MAF1.jpg MAF1a.jpg MAF1b.jpg MAF1c.jpg
MAF1d.jpg MAF1e.jpg
(Rights of the images of the guns to whom it corresponds)



Best regards,
Marcelo


PS: I COMMAND ALL MEMBERS, PASS A VERY HAPPY AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018.
 
Hi Marcelo,
two nice pictures of the gun.
seen a lot of the ammo,but never got around to seeing what the gun looked like.
Tim.
 
I made the one on the left into cutaway a few years ago.
Tim.
 

Attachments

  • image.jpg
    image.jpg
    292.5 KB · Views: 114
Very nice example. The 37x57 M15 round is an unusually interesting one. There are over 10 varies of projectiles for this gun. The gun itself is a small interesting item, but it was not liked be the troops as it power was not adequate for the job intended. Among the projectiles used were bouncing shells. On impact. a charge in the nose blew the major part of the shell into the air where the main charge exploded. The "priest mortar",had a similar design. WW1 has so many interesting answers to the problems encountered.
 
Still they were used after the war, I have a case dated 1926.
 
From what I know Czech and Jugo for sure used after ww1.

some 3,7cm M15 round,
IMG_8202.jpg

all the best
 
Last edited:
Outstanding!!! I was proud of my 11 examples til I saw your group.Like to have a couple of them. thanks for showing.
 
Thanks for showing fert,
I don't think I've seen the long version in the middle before.
is the second from left a case shot?
Tim.
 
you're weolcome guys!!
yes correct. 2 version V and K, first with ball sencod with steel segment.

here the K with steel segment
11272298_957669620931307_285410116_n.jpg11310909_957669607597975_203393089_n.jpg

a rare case, Berndorf 1918, not so common find
berndorf 1918.jpg

all the best
 
Top