7.7 cm Feldkanone 96 n. A.

The 7.7 cm Feldkanone 96 n. A. (n. A. = neuer Art/new style) was a light field gun that was used by the imperial German army and the armed forces of Bulgaria, Romania, and the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. This field gun based on the 7.7cm Feldkanone C/96 and has been extended to a hydropneumatic recoil brake, directional seats for gunners, a crank closure and a pantel for indirect directing. Existing C/96s were designated as 7.7 cm Feldkanonen 96 a. A. (a. A. = alter Art) and retrofitted over time to Feldkanonen 96 n. A..
The gun was lighter and therefore more mobile than the British Ordnance QF 18 Pounder, the French Canon de 75 mm modèle 1897 or the Russian Putilov 7.62-cm M1902 field gun. However, once the front had become static, the greater rate of fire of the French gun and the heavier shells fired by the British gun put the Germans at a disadvantage. In 1916 the Fk 96 was further developed to the longer-ranged, but heavier 7.7 cm Feldkanone 16.
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==Specifications==
(1905–1930s)
* Type: 	Field gun
* Caliber: 
* Shell: 77 mm (3 in)
* Crew: 5
* Elevation: -12° 56' to +15° 8'
* Traverse: 7° 15'
* Rate of Fire: 10 rpm
* Effective Range: 5,500 m (6,000 yd)
* Feed System: Single-shot
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===Film===
Title 	Actor	Character 	Note 	Date
All Quiet on the Western Front	 	German soldiers 	 	1930
Shock Troop 	 	 	seen on the battlefield	1934
The Great Dictator 	 	Tomanian soldiers 	 	1940
The Desert of the Tartars 	 	Austro-Hungarian soldiers 	 	1976
The Razor's Edge 	 	 	seen on the battlefield	1984
The Lighthorsemen 	 	Australian and Turkish troops	 	1987
Truman 	 	German soldiers 	 	1995
Windtalkers 	 	Japanese soldiers 	 	2002
War Horse 	 	German soldiers 	 	2011
All Quiet on the Western Front	 	German soldiers 	 	2022
=== Television ===
Show Title 	Actor	Character 	Note / Episode 	Air Date
McHale's Navy	 	Japanese soldiers	"Movies Are Your Best Diversion" (S1E5)	1962 - 1966
===Video Games===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Notation	Release Date
Battlefield: 1918 	"7.7cm Feldkanone 96 n.A."	 	2004
The Great War 1918 	"7.7cm Fk 96 n.A." 	 	2013
Battle of Empires: 1914-1918	"7.7cm Feldkanone 96" 	 	2015
Verdun 	 	 	2015
Battlefield 1 	"Fk 96" 	 	2016
Beyond The Wire 	"Feldkanone 96" 	 	2022
=7.7 cm Feldkanone 16=
The 7.7 cm Feldkanone 16 replaced the 7.7 cm Feldkanone 96 n. A. in the field artillery and brought itself a simplification of the production. In contrast to the Fk. 96 the gun was less mobile because of its greater weight, but achieved by the increased caliber length and the larger barrel elevation a greater range.
Retooled to the usual caliber of 7.5 cm, the gun became the standard field gun of the Reichswehr as the 7.5 cm Feldkanone 16 n.A..
===Specifications===
(1916–1930s)
* Type: 	Field gun
* Caliber: , 
* Shell: 77 mm (3 in), 75 mm (2.95 in)
* Crew: 5
* Elevation: -10° to +40°
* Traverse: 4°
* Rate of Fire: 10 rpm
* Effective Range: 9,100 m (10,000 yd)
* Feed System: Single-shot
===Film===
Title 	Actor	Character	Note	Date
Biggles: Adventures in Time	 	 	 	1986
 
===Video Games===
Game Title 	Appears as 	Notation	Release Date
The Great War 1918	7.7 cm Fk 16	 	2013
 
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