{"product_id":"75mm-french-field-gun-mle-1987-world-war-i","title":"75mm French Field Gun Mle 1987 World War I","description":"\u003cp\u003eIBG 1\/35\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuomessakin käytössä ollut kenttätykki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cb\u003eFrench 75 mm field gun\u003c\/b\u003e is a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quick-firing_gun\" title=\"Quick-firing gun\"\u003equick-firing\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Field_artillery\" title=\"Field artillery\"\u003efield artillery\u003c\/a\u003e piece adopted in March 1898. Its official French designation was: \u003cb\u003eMatériel de 75 mm Mle 1897\u003c\/b\u003e. It was commonly known as the \u003cb\u003eFrench 75\u003c\/b\u003e, simply the \u003cb\u003e75\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eSoixante-Quinze\u003c\/b\u003e (French for \"seventy-five\"). The French 75 was designed as an \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-personnel\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Anti-personnel\"\u003eanti-personnel\u003c\/a\u003e weapon system for delivering large volumes of time-fused \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shrapnel_shell\" title=\"Shrapnel shell\"\u003eshrapnel shells\u003c\/a\u003e on enemy troops advancing in the open. After 1915 and the onset of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trench_warfare\" title=\"Trench warfare\"\u003etrench warfare\u003c\/a\u003e, impact-detonated high-explosive shells prevailed. By 1918 the 75s became the main agents of delivery for \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chemical_warfare#Dispersion\" title=\"Chemical warfare\"\u003etoxic gas shells\u003c\/a\u003e. The 75s also became widely used as truck mounted \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-aircraft_artillery\" class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Anti-aircraft artillery\"\u003eanti-aircraft artillery\u003c\/a\u003e. They were the main armament of the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saint-Chamond_(tank)\" title=\"Saint-Chamond (tank)\"\u003eSaint-Chamond tank\u003c\/a\u003e in 1918 and the \u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Char_2C\" title=\"Char 2C\"\u003eChar 2C\u003c\/a\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Finnish - Soviet Winter War started in end of November 1939 Finnish Army found itself in serious shortage \u003cbr\u003eof artillery weapons and their ammunition. To fix the situation Finland was willing to buy just about any field \u003cbr\u003eartillery pieces, that any country was willing to sell. As part of this Finland contacted France asking possibility \u003cbr\u003eto purchase weapons. France offered only limited number of modern artillery pieces, but proved willing to donate \u003cbr\u003elarge number of old \"Mle 1877\" and \"Mle 1878\" field guns, which the French had no use and could \u003cbr\u003ebe delivered with large stockpile of readily available ammunition. Germany being in war with France made transporting\u003cbr\u003e the guns from France to Finland difficult and the used transport route quite long: First guns were shipped from \u003cbr\u003eFrance to Narvik in Norway. From Narvik the guns were transported by railway through Norway and Sweden to Finnish \u003cbr\u003eborder in Torneå \/ Tornio where they had to be reloaded to Finnish trains, as gauge of Finnish railways was \u003cbr\u003edifferent from Norwegian and Swedish. In Finland the guns were taken to depots, where they were checked before being \u003cbr\u003eissued. Due to the long and time-consuming transport route only small number of guns reached Finland before Winter War \u003cbr\u003eended. These French guns proved to be in much better shape then the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jaegerplatoon.net\/ARTILLERY1.htm\"\u003eRussian guns\u003c\/a\u003e also \u003cbr\u003eoriginally introduced in 1870's. Not only were the guns in notably better condition, but also French ammunition was \u003cbr\u003etypically more recent production and in much better shape than Russian artillery ammunition intended for equivalent \u003cbr\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.jaegerplatoon.net\/ARTILLERY1.htm\"\u003eRussian guns\u003c\/a\u003e captured in year 1918, which made the French ammunition notably more \u003cbr\u003ereliable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/qGRRF5uCkqx2bOFu7x5L-NsiqrU4iEejDg7kW7c2WVTQD0lvvt8DLSxIlSDSPUUc7qn7rLtNq1WZstJHDt3G5zxwuguxRCiT-Z0CGSbNqFt9VFOYR3pA_w8cSSourTcZTQFJzhUqQQiH\" jsaction=\"\" class=\"sFlh5c FyHeAf iPVvYb\" style=\"max-width: 267px; height: 159.814px; margin: 0px; width: 284.469px;\" alt=\"35067 – IBG Models\" jsname=\"kn3ccd\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/d37tikmwcb2tc.cloudfront.net\/plastic_models\/image\/IBG_35067_2.jpg\" jsaction=\"\" class=\"sFlh5c FyHeAf iPVvYb\" alt=\"75mm French Field Gun Mle 1897 World War I - IBG 35067 | kingshobby.com\" jsname=\"kn3ccd\" style=\"max-width: 1440px; width: 334px; height: 209px; margin: 0px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/www.metrohobbies.com.au\/cdn\/shop\/products\/IBG-35067d_grande.jpg?v=1624513926\" jsaction=\"\" class=\"sFlh5c FyHeAf iPVvYb\" alt=\"IBG Models 35067 1\/35 75mm French Field Gun MLE 1897 – Metro Hobbies\" jsname=\"kn3ccd\" style=\"max-width: 500px; height: 352px; margin: 0px; width: 352px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/exito.sklep.pl\/userdata\/public\/gfx\/122964\/35067-2.jpg\" jsaction=\"\" class=\"sFlh5c FyHeAf iPVvYb\" alt=\"IBG 35067 - 1:35 75mm French Field Gun Mle 1897 - World War I - Sklep  Modelarski Exito\" jsname=\"kn3ccd\" style=\"max-width: 1280px; height: 255px; margin: 0.5px 0px; width: 558px;\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IBG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57795373564288,"sku":"35067","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/1601\/9328\/files\/IBG35067.jpg?v=1775217696","url":"https:\/\/pienoismallimarketti.fi\/products\/75mm-french-field-gun-mle-1987-world-war-i","provider":"Pienoismallimarketti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}