Austria Hungary WW1 Cap Badge Skoda 30.5cm M11 Siege Howitzer Artillery 1914 1916

Austro - Hungarian Empire: WW1 patriotic cap badge 
presenting the Skoda M11 30,5cm Siege Howitzer. 
Dated 1914-16.
The Skoda M.11 30,5cm Siege Howitzer was produced 
by Skoda Works and used by the Austro-Hungarian 
Army during WW1 and by Nazi Germany in WW2.
The howitzer was able to penetrate 2m (6ft 7in) of 
reinforced concrete with its special armor-piercing 
shell. 8 such howitzers that were loaned to the 
German Army, were used together with the Krupp 
42cm howitzer ("Big Bertha") to destroy the Belgian 
fortresses around Liege, Namur and Antwerp in the 
early stages of WW1. 
A total of 23 M11 howitzers saw action with the 
German Army during WW2 against Poland, France 
and the Soviet Union.

WW1 1914 1918

Item 100% original 

Condition as on the photos

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