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The Materiel de 75mm Mle1897, the first piece of modern field artillery.
Manufactured by France in quantity, it could fire a shell every four seconds without the need to reaim thanks to its hydraulic recoil system, a first at the time. It was greatly liked by the troops and was commonly known as the 75, or soixante-quinze in French.

French 75. When you get everything right.

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