Mountain guns are artillery pieces designed for mountain warfare and other areas where wheeled transport is not possible. They are generally capable of being taken apart to make smaller loads for transport by horses, humans, mules, tractors, or trucks. As such, they are sometimes called "pack guns" or "pack howitzers". During the American Civil War these small portable guns were widely used and were called "mountain howitzers".
P. Lykoudis's original 1891 dismantleable breechloading gun with recoil control
The first designs of modern breechloading mountain guns with recoil control and the capacity to be easily broken down and reassembled into highly efficient units were made by Greek army engineers P. Lykoudis and Panagiotis Danglis (after whom the Schneider-Danglis gun was named) in the 1890s.
Italian mountain artillery troops with a Mod 56 in the Dolomites in 2019
Type 41 75 mm mountain gun, a licensed copy of the German Krupp M1908, located at The Royal Canadian Regiment Museum in London, Ontario.
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Popular Science, May 1941, "The Old Army Army Mule Takes Guns Where Wheels Won't Go"
Assembling the Howitzer detail photos showing a 75mm howitzer's various sections being taken off mules and assembled
January 01, 1970
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