75 mm Krupp-Lykoudis
The 75 mm Krupp-Lykoudis gun (Greek: Ρυμουλκούμενο πυροβόλο Κρουπ-Λυκούδη διαμετρήματος 75 χιλιοστών) was designed by Petros Lykoudis and developed in collaboration with Krupp.
History
[edit]The idea of a detachable cannon for mountain artillery goes back to two officers of the Greek Army: the then Major of Engineers Petros Lykoudis in 1891, who made the first relevant proposal, and later to the then Major of Artillery Panagiotis Daglis, who submitted his own design in 1893.[citation needed]
The controversy between inventors
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The then peer of Daglis, Lykoudis, had sent the design of the cannon to the German Krupp industry, while Daglis sent his design to the French Schneider. When the Greek army was looking to equip the army with new weapons, Lykoudis reported to the Army General Staff that his plan was the same as that of Daglis. But after tests, the Daglis design proved better than the Lykoudis (Krupp-Lykoudis), and the gun was adopted by the Greek Army, which it fought with from the Balkan Wars until World War II.[1][2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Ιστορικό εξοπλισμών Ελληνικού Πυροβολικού". Γενικό Επιτελείο Στρατού. 2012-10-09. Archived from the original on 2017-07-08. Retrieved 2016-12-04.
- ^ ΒΑΣΙΛΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ, ΠΑΝΑΓΙΩΤΗΣ (1996), ΟΡΕΙΒΑΤΙΚΑ ΠΥΡΟΒΟΛΑ ΤΩΝ 75 mm Η ελληνική συμβολή στην ανάπτυξη του ορειβατικού πυροβολικού, Αθηνα: Εκδοσεις Γκοβοστη, ISSN 1109-0510.