Foreign Use
When it landed in France in 1939 the British Expeditionary Force had insufficient numbers of anti-tank weapons such as the Ordnance QF 2 pounder. They were issued canons de 25 which became known as Anti-Tank Gun, 25 mm. Hotchkiss, Mark I on 25 mm. Carriage, Mark I in British service.
Examples captured by the German forces were operationally used under the designation 2.5 cm Pak 112(f). Some captured guns also made it into Italian service in North Africa as alternatives to the Solothurn_S-18/1000.
Finland purchased 50 French 25 mm M/37 antitank guns during Winter War, but only 40 of them were delivered in February 1940 through Norway. The remaining ten guns were captured by the Germans when they invaded Norway in spring of 1940. About half of the guns, which had arrived during Winter War saw frontline service during it and three of them were lost in battle. During Interim Peace the Germans sold 200 captured guns to Finland. 133 of them were model M/34 and 67 were model M/37, and they were designated 25 PstK/34 and 25 PstK/37, respectively. They were withdrawn from front-line use by 1943.
In 1935 the Hotchkiss 25 mm anti-tank gun was purchased for evaluation by the US Army.
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