10 cm houfnice vz. 30 (howitzer) the field and mountain gun roles into one weapon. The Czechoslovak army decided to adopt it to replace their plethora of aged Austro-Hungarian field guns. They replaced the wheels with modern rubber-tired wheels, but curiously chose to retain the crewman's seat on the Gun shield. It used the same carriage as the 8 cm kanon vz. 30 that could break down into three pieces for transport . It fired a shell. 10 cm houfnice vz. 30 (howitzer) The 10 cm houfnice vz. 30 (howitzer model 30) was a Czechoslovak howitzer used in the Second World War. The 158 weapons captured
Name of the Czech Republic Slovak national aspirations, the name "Czecho-Slovakia" (later "Czechoslovakia") was adopted instead. After the establishment of Czechoslovakia, the name "Czechia" appeared in English, alongside the official name, as a reference to all the Czech lands and to differentiate between the Czech and Slovak parts of the state. It was used at least as early as 4 January 1925; appearing in the article "Literary History of the Czechs", published by "The New York Times". The name was used in the Anglophone press before the German occupation of the Czech lands in 1939. The current English ethnonym "Czech" comes from the Polish ethnonym