#Canon de 75 modele 1897 license

Guns specially designed for operations in mountain battlefields Guns designed to be integrated in ground permanent fortresses or in coastal defense Guns designed for super heavy artillery (on railway, heavy power. Therefore, the following convention - strictly personnal and non historic - have been adopted :Д¬aliber lower than 120 mm, whatever belonging to the light field artillery or the heavy field artilleryД¬aliber equal or higher than 120 mm, siege or field artillery, but not heavy power artillery Guns type : each nation used different definitions of the type of artillery, and those definitions sometimes changed with time too.For instance, the numerous Russian heavy guns captured by the Germans and used on the Western front as heavy artillery are classified in the 'Russian artillery table', while the Russian fieldguns captured by the IInd Reich and converted into 'Flak' guns are allocated to Germany. Captured guns : the guns that have been captured during the war and used by another army remain allocated to the initial owner, unless they were significantly modified (for instance caliber modification, or conversion to AA gun.).

#Canon de 75 modele 1897 license

If other companies participated to the design or the manufacturing or if the gun is produced under license by a foreign plant, a double or triple nationality origin may be given (withy smaller country flag icons). Guns origin : the guns origin country is the nationality of the designer company.On the opposite, a French Schneider gun used by the French army and used after WW1 by the Finnish army without major modification will remain classified amongst the German guns. Therefore, a German Krupp gun designed for exportation used by the Belgium army during WW1 will be allocated to the 'Belgium Artillery' section, and not to Germany. Unless for deliberate purpose (for instance to illustrate a technologic evolution within a country), the guns are allocated to the nation whose army adopted and used them during WW1 by buying them to any country industry, or by exchanges of material between allies, and not particularly to the nation that designed or built them. Some arbitrary conventions have been adoptedДЇor the classification of the articles of this WW1 surviving guns database :