The New Field Artillery Materiel - Its Characteristics and Powers

The present year finds the United States Army in the act of re-arming its Field Artillery with an entirely new type of gun. That is to say, it is new in the sense that it differs in almost every essential feature from that which it supersedes; the type itself, in its general characteristics, is one which is familiar to our Artillery officers, and most of the important foreign nations have already adopted something similar to it.