Such batteries could be a mixture of cannon, howitzer, or mortar types. The M198 is a towed howitzer that is transported tail first. LVT(A)-4 with a powered turret and a gyrostabilizer for the howitzer. The gun was an M1 with the recoil mechanism from the M2A1 105 mm howitzer. The pack howitzer carriage M1 had dismantling construction. The W19 was fired from a special howitzer. Grille mobile howitzer, Flakpanzer 38(t) and the Jagdpanzer 38(t) "Hetzer" tank destroyer. The gun was introduced as a modern replacement for the aging twelve-pound mountain howitzer. The tanks then advanced, continuing to ignore the American howitzer and bazooka fire. Instead the Israeli Defense Forces selected an upgraded version of American M109 howitzer. The gun was a development of the previous standard howitzer, the 15 cm sFH 02. It was commissioned to be a replacement for the WWII-era M114 155 mm howitzer. Examples include the French railway howitzer which used cradle-sliding recoil. It remains the standard light howitzer of Canadian Forces Reserve units. Some E8s were equipped with the M101 howitzer.