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| | A Brief Overview of the Gebirgstruppen--Page 3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10) |
 | | There are three basic requirements, which a mountain gun has to comply with in order to be successful: portability, robustness and the ability to fire high trajectory projectiles. |
 | | Various firms, including Skoda, Krupp and Rheinmetall, developed mountain guns prior to World War 2, but the most successful types were the Rheinmetall 7.5 cm Gebirgsgeschütz 36 which could be broken down into several component parts for transport by pack animal; and the Böhler 10.5 cm Gebirgshaubitze 40. |
 | | In other directions they made use of standard German army equipment, with the exception of the 2 cm Gebirgsflak 38 anti-aircraft gun, which, in addition to its specially lightened carriage, was available to mountain units in a variant which permitted its use against ground targets with the operator lying prone--a most useful weapon. |
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