WW1 Artillery

[Beirut]

Now if you review the advances in artillery from about 1860 forward - I believe you will find that some of the tech developed by Krupp was included in the rifling tech used on almost all early howitzers and cannons. There were others as this site mentions - but if I remember correctly Krupp came up with the most combination that provided for the best accuracy and range.

Have you read The Arms of Krupp? The book is outrageously interesting. You could never imagine one family and one implement, the cannon, could have had such an effect on history. It's a must-read as far as military history goes.

[Redleg]

Have you read The Arms of Krupp? The book is outrageously interesting. You could never imagine one family and one implement, the cannon, could have had such an effect on history. It's a must-read as far as military history goes.

Yes indeed - its is an excellent book to understand the modern howitzer. People would be amazed about how much impact the Krupp family has had in that regards.

[edyzmedieval]

Krupp was a metalurgical empire really. So, it's not surprising.

[Gealai]

Redleg explained it very well, I just may add that there might be other factors too.

Given that the frontline troops occupied their piece of frontine for a long while they might have been able to estimate the type of gun quite well, thanks to

a) direction of the gun's sound: rather easy to guess roughly
b) sound of the travelling shell --> see Redleg's expl.
c) time of travel: if you hear first the sound of the gun and then the explosion close to you it just can be a mortar
d) type of explosion --> see Redleg's exp.
- it's sound
- it's shape
- it's effect

and
e) shooting habits
f) known location of the guns


Instead of a single factor all of them played togheter.