12 cm felthaubits/m32

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12 cm felthaubits m/32
The 12 cm felthaubits in Kongsberg.
Type	Howitzer
Place of origin	Norway
Service history
Used by	Norway Nazi Germany
Wars	World War II
Production history
Designer	Kongsberg
Manufacturer	Kongsberg
No. built	8
Specifications
Mass	1,990 kilograms (4,390 lb)
Barrel length	2.4 metres (7 ft 10 in) L/20
Shell	20.4 kilograms (45 lb)
Caliber	120 mm (4.72 in)
Carriage	split trail
Elevation	-5° to +43°
Traverse	54°
Muzzle velocity	450 m/s (1,476 ft/s)
Maximum firing range	10,300 metres (11,300 yd)

The 12 cm felthaubits m/32 was a howitzer used by Norway in World War II.

Eight were built during the 1930s to replace the obsolescent 12 cm le.FH. 08, which was known in Norwegian service as the 12 cm felthaubits m/32. They served with the single heavy artillery battalion of the Norwegian Army in 1940, but were unable to get ammunition during the campaign and were evacuated into Sweden, according to one source.

Captured guns were given a German designation after the Invasion of Norway as the 12 cm le.FH. 376(n). Two batteries of Artillerie-Abteilung 477, which served in Finland during the war, were equipped with 12 cm Norwegian howitzers, which might included these guns.

It was equipped with rubber-rimmed steel wheels for motorized towing.

• Gander, Terry and Chamberlain, Peter. Weapons of the Third Reich: An Encyclopedic Survey of All Small Arms, Artillery and Special Weapons of the German Land Forces 1939-1945. New York: Doubleday, 1979 ISBN 0-385-15090-3
• Chamberlain, Peter & Gander, Terry. Heavy Artillery. New York: Arco, 1975 ISBN 0-668-03898-5

• Norwegian artillery on Norway 1940
• Independent Artillery Units on Panzerkeil