Airborne gun

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Airborne guns are

Airborne guns by country

China

• Chinese airborne forces have mounted 105mm
  recoilless rifles
  on jeeps but otherwise conform to the Warsaw Pact doctrine of light armored vehicles.

Germany (historical)

• 7.5 cm leichtes Infanteriegeschütz 18

Italy

• OTO Melara Mod 56 The Mod 56 was quite popular among mountain and airborne units, as it could be broken down into 12 components.

Soviet Union / Russia

• Soviet (and Russian) military doctrine calls for its airborne forces to be fully mechanized (via the
  ZU-23
  23 mm twin AA autocannon.

Turkey

• airlifted with a medium-lift utility helicopter and deployed in a short time for fire missions. Based on L118.^[1][2][3]

• L118 Light Gun, firing a 105mm shell that is useful against light vehicles and/or fixed emplacements but would be ineffective against a main battle tank
• the medium
  M777, firing 155 mm shells with significant anti-personnel capabilities. Can achieve anti-armor capability with specialised shells, e.g. SADARM

• Mountain gun, also known as "pack howitzer"

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