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Old July 25th, 2018, 07:02 PM

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Default Re: Czechoslovak OOB37 and Slovak OOB01

Thanks for taking my suggestions under consideration.

While working on colour pictures, I've discovered, that, surprisingly, Czechoslovakia didn't use generic 81mm Stokes-Brandt 74 8cm Mortar Sec. It is not in inventory at http://www.delostrelectvocsarmady191...roce-1927.html and http://www.delostrelectvocsarmady191...zari-1938.html
Czechoslovakia used older 9cm vz.17 mortar instead http://www.delostrelectvocsarmady191...met-vz.17.html - range only 1920 m, HE kill might be 13, like Japanese weapon #221
(photo http://www.delostrelectvocsarmady191...17/45.jpg.html)

Also heavy mortar 14cm vz.18 could be added http://www.delostrelectvocsarmady191...met-vz.18.html - range 2650 m, used in separate units (4-mortar batteries) in 1930-39
photo http://www.delostrelectvocsarmady191.../m-vz.jpg.html

Some leftovers from previous files:

81 37mm KPUV vz 37 -
According to http://www.delostrelectvocsarmady191...uv--vz.37.html, first guns were accepted by the Army in 12/37 (now 1/37).

90 76mm Field Gun - maybe it's worth to give it original Army designation 8cm Field Gun? http://www.delostrelectvocsarmady191...non-vz_30.html

91 100mm Howitzer - icon is the same as 76mm gun above, best seems 2116 with thicker barrel (although it was a bit shorter, than 76mm gun on unified carriage - 2.5m vs 3m. Icon 2170 has the same carriage, but might have too thin barrel).

Same for Slovak unit 91

183 152mm Battery - Soviet origin weapon, should be renamed from vz.10 (range has been corrected to Soviet M-10 or D-1 howitzers). The photo 2590 is used for Soviet M-10... but in fact it is most probably ML-20 long-range gun-howitzer (Soviet OOB 123 and 145 units might have this photo changed to real M-10 photo 23258).

So I suggest to rename weapon to M-10 (vz.38) and change photo to 23258 - or make it better ML-20 gun-howitzer (vz.37) with range 207.

(BTW: most typical late-war Soviet "short" howitzer would be D-1 vz.43, with the same range 202 and previous drawing 114)

189 76mm AT-Gun - it's rather improbable, that Soviet allies would receive in 1943 pre-war obr.1936 (F-22 L/51) guns (largely lost in 1941) - most probable would be standard ZiS-3 obr.1942 (like Soviet unit 281)

Cars:

139 Tatra T93 - it's best to change it back to Praga AV, since we have generic 137 Tatra Staff Car, covering all models of six-wheel Tatras, while we have no Praga. There is a photo 23170 or 22214 of Praga AV.

Same photo should be for Slovak unit 139 (Praga AV)

That's probably all this time.
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