The gun was actually 66 mm, but the classification system for artillery rounded up to the next highest centimeter.

The barrel was made of steel with a horizontal sliding breech block and used fixed quick fire ammunition.

The Škoda 7 cm K10 and K16 were mounted aboard battleships, coastal defence ships and cruisers of the Austro-Hungarian Navy as secondary or tertiary armament.

[3] The Italians came into possession of a number of these guns through ships ceded to them as war reparations.

The French Navy also came into possession of a number of these guns through ships ceded to them as war reparations, but there is not much evidence that they used them afterwards.