Artillery

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>>34817131
>all those shell holes

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>>34817154

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>>34817161
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Ok enough dumping from me for tonight. Good night /k/. If any of you guys have any arty pics from Ukraine or US Arty with camo nets I would greatly appreciate it.

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If anyone ITT is interested, I took some pictures of rare/unusual artillery pieces from the Civil War last year on a Civil War themed vacation.

Pic related is a battery of Union owned James Rifles at the Manassas battlefield.

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>>34817233
These are the guns of Rickett's battery, 10lb Union Parrot Rifles that were ordered to attack at (relatively) close range on Henry Hill during the battle of First Manassas. Rickett was told he would get infantry support, but it never arrived due to poor communication, and his battery was overrun and captured.

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>>34817248
An old Howitzer style artillery piece at Manassas. Both the North and South tried to get rid of their Howitzers when the war started because of their short range in comparison to the rifled pieces coming into use at the time.

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>>34817262
Guns of Richard Lee's battery at Antietam battlefield. Lee was a nephew of Robert E. Lee. This battery was actually briefly captured by Union troops before Southern troops were able to re-capture it.

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>>34817272
Another old-style Howitzer that was in use at Antietam. Used by the South. This particular piece is remarkable for how well preserved it is.

On a somewhat unrelated sidenote, my own Civil War ancestor fought in this part of the Antietam battlefield and likely passed near this very spot.

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>>34817289
20lb Parrot Rifle near Lee's command hill at Fredericksburg. This is one of two 20lb Parrots produced by the Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond. It's twin was also present at the battle, but exploded when a powder charge prematurely detonated in the overheated barrel, killing the gun crew and nearly killing Lee and his staff, who were standing only a few feet away.

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>>34817319
Extremely rare Whitworth rifle on Oak Hill at Gettysburg.

The Whitworth was a rifled gun, but also featured a primitive breech-loading system, one of the first of it's kind. The gun fired a 3-inch hexagonal high-explosive shell with (for the time) unbelievable accuracy. The Whitworth was hard to make (and nearly impossible to get parts for). required a special carriage, and the ammo was also difficult to obtain. The Whitworth was peerless when it worked, but the gun crew servicing it had to be careful not to run out of ammunition or damaging the gun.

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British Flying Pig trench mortar, WW1, IWM London.

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15" naval guns from same.

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Round for same

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>>34817362
Guns of the Army of Northern Virginia on Seminary ridge, facing Union positions opposite on Cemetery Ridge. These guns are not rare or anything, but there are 170-ish guns along the ridge, representing (and most of them were guns present at the battle IIRC) the 150-170 Confederate guns that participated in the several hour long artillery bombardment prior to Pickett's Charge, likely the largest artillery bombardment in North America. The sound was said to have shattered windows 50 miles away in Philadelphia.

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British 9.4" howitzer

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Shells in a factory for the war effort, during the first world war at one point 70% of Britain's GDP was dedicated to the war economy.

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5.5" gun from a British cruiser

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>>34817406
View from Cushing's battery behind the Bloody Angle and next to the famous "copse of trees," that the Confederates used as a landmark. These guns were briefly overrun by elements of Armistead's brigade before Union reinforcements could arrive and secure the Union line. General Armistead himself was shot trying to turn the guns about to fire them on the Union reinforcements; while Cushing was killed defending his battery with nothing but a revolver and a loading rod; for which he later received a Medal of Honor.

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13pdr field gun, WW2 era weapon that saw extensive use in North Africa.

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>>34817412
Man, the aesthetic of the first world war is brutal as fuck.

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>>34817433
Union Coehorn mortar at Harper's Ferry. These could disassembled and carried by a two man team (usually the guns crew). These mortars were often used in Mountainous or otherwise prohibitive terrain for their great mobility.

Later in the war they actually became widely used around the Spotsylvania, Cold Harbor, and Petersburg, trenches, because of their effectiveness at bombarding enemy trenches.

And that's all I really have for now. Hopefully I get the chance to take more pictures some day, I still haven't had the chance to visit many of the smaller or Western battlefield, and my camera died about 2/3rds of the way through the trip so there were a number of interesting pieces I couldn't get a picture of.

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French 75mm field gun. Entered service in 1893, this was the first truly modern artillery piece. The French went to great expense to hide the revolutionary hydraulic recoil system, even going so far as to make fake guns without the system to show at expos and gunnery competitions.
This system solved the problem of constantly repositioning the gun after every shot, allowing for unprecedented accuracy on follow-up shots and unprecedented rates of fire. Combined with advances in communications and spotting techniques, this led to indirect fire becoming mainstream for the first time.
Humorously, the French were among the last to fully realise the implications of this innovation, the original production runs of the 75 had only rudimentary direct fire sights.
Later in the war the 75 was displaced by bigger guns, but retained a niche as a delivery system for gasses. This particular gun saw action throughout the war, so good money says you are looking at a used-in-anger WMD. Technically.
This is the last pic I've got that is /arty/.

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Correction, this is the last pick.
Various gas shells.
On the left is a canister type dispersal system.

>>34817467
I know what you mean man, huge twists and bolts and rivets and cogs and machines. Puts one in the mind of industrial hardship, men on the production line at the death factory... a generation of young men just...processed into another mile of earth.

>entire thread about artillery
>not a single mention of glorious Schwerer Gustav
come on guys