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76.2mm M27 Infantry Gun
or 76 mm regimental gun M1927

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/76_mm_regimental_gun_M1927 wrote:The Germans placed captured guns into service as the 7.62 cm Infanteriekanonehaubitze 290(r) (infantry gun-howitzer), while in the Finnish army they were known as 76 RK/27.

Waffen-Arsenal 156 (translated from german to English by me) wrote:The regimental cannon 1927/39. On 1st of March 1944 there were 255 cannons of that type in usage by the Wehrmacht. They were designated 7,62cm I.K.H. 290 (r).

Jyri Paulaharju (1995): Itsenäisen Suomen kenttätykit 1918-1995 wrote: 19.07.1940 - 54
01.11.1942 - 205
01.01.1944 - 235
01.08.1944 - 197
01.08.1951 - 195 [...]

In Game:
GER: Currently no usage.
FIN: 200 from captured ones
BUT this Guns is ingame used by all those "Coastal Infantry Units", in the several thousands. Therefore this guys will run out of Cannons becuase this converted gun is the only Ifantry Gun for the FIN and is only being produced 1 per week!

further:
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=214593
https://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?t=191137

From BArch RH 2/2714.

The Finns already start the game with 1k of these guns in service, even with all the variety of guns they had thats probably 500 (or more) too much. Don't know if the costal brigades really had so many of them.
This could indeed be something for Jim to add, in one of my AI save I found ~500 captured guns in pool of ~700 capured

MaximKI wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 1:30 pm
V1.04.01 – 9th September 2024

[...]

• Ground.dat
[...]
o 76mm IG 290r Infantry Gun (0547) – Captured Soviet 76.2mm M27 Infantry Gun added with Maximum Imports of 900 beginning 1/42 to 8/45 and “built” at a rate of 5 per week.

Naming issues to previously used conventions.

• 76mm should be 76.2mm
• IG should be
  • either: IKH (that's a big "i" for infantry)
  • or: leKH
  • or: IK
  → and no space inbetween it and the number (well the space varies throughout elements)
• r should be (r)

So,
76.2mm IKH290(r) Infantry Gun

I have absolutely no idea why this IG was named Infanterie Kanonenhaubitze by the germans. It is not much different from the german 7.5 IG.
I can live with it be (mis)named as IG.