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This is the medium towed howitzer for the Imperial Japanese Army during the 1930s and 1940s.

range: 11,900 m
barrel length: 3,523 mm
weight 4,1400 kg
elevation: -5° to +65°
traverse arc: n/a
projectile weight: 31,3 kg
muzzle velocity: 540 m/s
rate of fire: 3-4 rounds per minute max, 45 rounds per hour sustained

Download it here. (http://forums.civfanatics.com/./downloads.php?do=file&id=8285)

Model by Gary Childress, animations and documentation by TopGun.

Enjoy my first non-aircraft unit! :D

1ste! Cool thing.

:goodjob: Wonderful job！

WOOT! That does not fly... :crazyeye:

Yes it does. Those stabilisers are infact wings, and the barrel is the exhaust of a jet engine. Use your imagination!

nice job guys!

Great 1st Non-Aircraft Unit TopGun :goodjob: Now maybe there is a way to mount it on a plane :lol: just kidding but we have to joke around after all of the Aircraft you have made.

Cool unit. Can always use more artillery.

Upon closer examination, I believe my uncle has either this gun or one another one very similar to this in his garage!

I'll have to ask him what his gun is (yes, it can still fire :evil:).

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@ TopGun: Would this have been classified as a mountain howitzer? Or perhaps be used as one frequently?

Is your uncle's name R. Lee Ermey, by any chance? :lol:

Mountain gun? I'm sure the Japanese used these guns in the mountains of Burma ... it seems light enough.

Not quite. My uncle would've made a great marine, but he wasn't in the service.

Beautifull unit. We have so much aircrafts we can use ground units.

How do you suggest we use it (i'm still in the Ancient Era, for my mod) ?
Something as a bigger and more recent artillery (allowed to have between the Artillery and the Tank, maybe ?) ? 16.4.2 (arty is 3 in range and 3 in ROF in my mod, for force the IA to use them most, even if the damn Hittites and Englishs use already them a lot), with 100 in cost ?

I'd use it as an Arty replacement for the Japanese. Stats depend on your mod balancing.