French guns 90 K/77, Photo (Lappaenranta)

French guns 90 K/77

French guns 90 K/77

Old French guns of 1877 model are on the ground near to the powder cellar. Caliber - 90/25 mm,
fire range - 9.7 km, shell's weight - 9 kg. Designed for direct fire use.
These were a wide spread gun's type of Great War time. 100 such guns were donated to Finland by France during the Winter War (February 1940). They was an armament of Salpa line and also some of them took part in the fights on Hanko and Svyr river in USSR.

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