All things Artillery

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I was looking into WWI era artillery shells and I found this image of Italian Fuses. I was struck by the complexity and amount of work it must of took to machine and hand assemble only to be blown up.

eeeeeEEEEEEeeeeeEEEEEEeeeeeEEEEEeeeeEEEEeeee

and i'm fighting the VA for hearing loss.

>>33365203
Which is why the US should be using self-propelled autoloading howitzers, not a stupid choreographed dance of 10 guys manually loading them.

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>>33367144
Yeah buddy good luck getting those Paladins onto firebases in the Hindu Kush

>>33367144
>>33367176
Yeah skipped autoloading part, but the principle still applies.

Good luck get an Archer on top of Hindu Kush.

>>33365181
Probably the cruise missiles of their day, I imagine an artilleryman marveling at how easy it is to set a timed fuse with a key instead of cutting fuse like his grandfather would have done.

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>>33365008
did someone mention unfair fire?

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>>33367144
>>33367176
>>33367183
120mm mortars carried by pic related can get to places most howitzers can't (if the vehicle can't get all the way the crew can easily transport the weapon on foot the rest of the way) & do just as much damage

>>33367176
You don't use "firebases" in a real war

>>33367963
>You don't use "firebases" in a real war
strip malls then?

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>>33365008
*misses your lampedusa*

>>33368840
need to be mobile so you don't die to return fire

>>33369769
as I have said before, 120mm mortars on SUSVs are the way to go:
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