10 cm Gebirgshaubitze M 8

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The 10 cm Gebirgshaubitze M 8 was a mountain howitzer used by Austria-Hungary during World War I.^[1] It was the first Austrian howitzer to use a modern hydraulic variable-recoil system. It used the same ammunition as the earlier 10 cm Gebirgshaubitze M 99, which was shown to be accurate, but lacked sufficient power to destroy bunkers, during World War I. It had a gun shield. It could be mounted on a special sled carriage designated 10 cm M. 8 Gebirgsschleife designed to allow for high-angle fire between +43° and 70° elevation. This sled was transported on a special bedding cart with removable wheels. The wheels were removed when in position to fire.

Key Information

10 cm M. 8 Gebirgshaubitze
M.10 at an Italian military cemetery
Type	Mountain howitzer
Place of origin	Austria-Hungary
Service history
Used by	Austria-Hungary
Wars	World War I
Specifications
Shell	14.3 kg (31 lb 8 oz)
Caliber	104 mm (4.1 in)
Breech	Horizontal sliding-wedge
Carriage	Box trail
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The 10 cm Gebirgshaubitze M 10 was virtually identical except that it had its traversing and elevating handwheels on different sides and it was not given a high-angle mount.

• Ortner, M. Christian. The Austro-Hungarian Artillery From 1867 to 1918: Technology, Organization, and Tactics. Vienna, Verlag Militaria, 2007 ISBN 978-3-902526-13-7
• 10 cm M.8 und M. 10 Gebirgshaubitze. heeresgeschichten.at. Retrieved 28 January 2014.

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