Special Features: - Either combat or travel modes can be selected for assembly - Newly designed trails to tow sFH 18 Howitzer in travel mode - Aluminium gun barrel with hollow end - Gun can elevate to different angles - Gun recoils like the real one - Slide-moulded recoil system - Gun breech is newly designed - Breechblock represented in detail - Fully detailed gun cradle mount is slide moulded - Periscope gun sight in clear plastic - Photo-etched components for gun that allow it to elevate - Hand wheels reproduced in detail - Slide-moulded gun trails with beautiful detail - Crisp nut and bolt detail represented - Trail spades fully detailed - Two options for assembly of trail spades – combat or travel mode - Toolboxes on gun trails included - Traversing gear realistically represented - New suspension for sFH 18 Howitzer with steering mechanism - Slide-moulded wheels with weld detail - Nuts sharply represented on road wheels - Cleaning rods for sFH 18 Howitzer are newly designed - Lathed brass parts to upgrade details - New ranging poles included - New firing lanyard - OVM tools specific to sFH 18 Howitzer are newly tooled - Gr.19 and Gr.19 Schwere Betongranate (concrete-piercing) rounds included as bonus - Propellant charges included - Protective wicker cases for rounds included - New Cartograf Decal
About the sFH 18 Howitzer Artillery is often termed “The King of the Battlefieldâ€, and this was no less true in WWII. Germany’s 15cm sFH 18 (sFH stands for schwere Feld Haubitze or “Heavy Field Howitzerâ€) was the standard heavy howitzer throughout the war. Nicknamed Immergrun (“Evergreenâ€), it was based on the sFH 13 of WWI vintage. Widely used by the Army, the 5.5-ton weapon was also employed by the Navy in coastal defence positions. A total of 7,400 howitzers were manufactured through to the end of the war, each capable of hurling a 15cm shell out to a maximum range of 13km. The sFH 18 also happened to be the world’s first artillery system to make use of a rocket-assisted projectile (RAP).