Army Fires Shells 40 Miles in Upgraded Cannon Test

The Epoch Times ^ | March 7, 2020 Updated: March 7, 2020 | SIMON VEAZEY

[DUMBGRUNT]

So the barrel length is different, are the projectiles different?

[Spktyr]

The barrel construction is also radically different. The Mark 7 on the Iowas has a ‘barrel liner’ or internal sleeve that is the wear surface and rifling. This liner is much tougher than the inside of the Mark 6 and earlier linerless guns so it can fire more shells before needing replacement. When the liner reaches the end of its service life, it is pulled out of the barrel and a new liner is inserted.

The Mark 7 fired the same projectiles as the Mark 6, but there are some specialty shells that the 7 can fire and while the 6 can chamber and fire them, it will be to a much reduced range.

[Red6]

You know,

You have the Iranians, Kurds, Israeli’s, Libyans, Serbs, Russians, Islamic terror groups all killing folks on the sovereign grounds of European nations and they seldom get to offended or make a fuss about it.

They’ll scream loud if a US 117 years past violates their air space (Austria) while getting refueled (in day light), but Iran can whack a dude in broad daylight in Austria and you won’t hear a squeak from them.

Our Euro allies scare me. Look at Spain that was with us in Iraq and then after the Madrid Train station bombing pulled out.

They have big mouths, and they surely want to sell their shit and benefit from free trade. They need open airways, water ways, international intellectual property rights, the safety and security (stability) within their sphere of influence as well as have access to strategic resources, but they don’t want to spend not have the courage to take any sort of action to that end. However, they will shoot their mouth off to us, since we won’t bomb them.