To: C19fan
Doing a bore cleaning must take a week.
4 posted on
03/30/2016 12:13:51 PM PDT by
oh8eleven
(RVN '67-'68)
To: oh8eleven; C19fan
IIRC, we had the 175mm in Germany back in the 70's and it could fire up to 26 miles.
We switched tubes to the 8" in '78.
6 posted on
03/30/2016 12:17:45 PM PDT by
PROCON
To: oh8eleven
That is NOT a “howitzer”! It’s a gun: howitzers are cannon systems capable of both low angle and high angle fire interchangeably and one would assume, easily.
That pig would have to loaded at a low quadrant, then laboriously cranked up to 1100 mils or so - then laboriously cranked back down to loading elevation again, etc., etc.
Sheesh!
19 posted on
03/30/2016 1:06:44 PM PDT by
Chainmail
(A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
To: oh8eleven
i take it the tube must be dividable at the flange, else wise it'd be a real first class b!tch going around corners in transit
39 posted on
03/30/2016 4:48:16 PM PDT by
Chode
(Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -w- NO Pity for the LAZY - Luke, 22:36)
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