75mm mle 1897 gun (EARLY, MIDDLE)

with one 75mm mle 1897 gun (with spoked or rubber wheel options), one gun limber & one gun turntable. The 75mm mle 1897 gun was a superb piece of French engineering. It was the first gun in the world to combine a breech-loading mechanism with an effective recoil system. This quick-firing weapon made every other artillery piece obsolete. Despite being over forty years old, the soixante quinze – the ‘seventy five’– is still one of the most rapid-firing artillery pieces in existence.