1942 Soviet Union, Combat action at the front, German Artillery Field Howitzer, private footage

On this time travel to the front lines of a murderous war in the Soviet Union, we are encountering the most important weapon of all German infantry divisions, the 15 cm schwere Feldhaubitze 18 or sFH 18 (German: “Feld Howitzer, Model 18“), nicknamed “Immergrün“, the german word for “Evergreen“. Its mobility and firing range and the effectiveness of its 44 kilogram shell made it a very dangerous weapon. A total of 6,756 examples were produced. The howitzer was designed for horse towing, it used an unsprung axle and hard rubber tires. It replaced the earlier, First World War-era design of the 15 cm sFH 13, which was judged by the Krupp-Rheinmetall designer team of the sFH 18 as completely inadequate. The sFH 18 was twice as heavy as its predecessor, had a muzzle velocity increase of forty percent, a maximum firing range 4.5 kilometers greater, and a new split-trail gun carriage that increased the firing traverse twelvefold. The secret development from 1926–1930 allow