Posted on 03/07/2020 4:20:31 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
It’s not a cannon.
It’s a gun.
RIP Bull. He no doubt would have succeeded in a quest to launch suborbital payloads if given the funds.
The Germans did it, literally.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONARC
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WNGER_61-52_MONARC_Hamburg_pic.jpg
“Right now, Russian artillery currently outranges US and NATO artillery by a not small margin.”
That’s because we retired all of our 175mm and 210mm guns.
This precision guided and rocket boosted round is like a fire cracker unless it lands right on you.
There is simply no substitute for heavy artillery.
Why? Seems like a bunch of missiles, ground to ground, or whatever would be a lot cheaper in the long run wouldn’t it and a lot easier to move around and protect.
Bull did not invent the rocket assist projectile. The Germans were firing them from Sturmtigers in WW2.
What Bull *did* invent (or rather engineer, as others had came up with the idea decades prior) is the multiple firing chamber or “booster” gun.
Missiles cost a lot more than artillery rounds (usually).
In a combat situation, there are radio calls about artillery firings stating azimuth and max ord. I heard those for the 155mm and 8" but do not recall how high it was. Way over our puny helos, for sure. When some fly past you on the way up, it gets your attention.
interesting!
Ear protection is suggested.
The Russians are famous for putting all their artillery wheel to wheel and letting them go all at once for an extended period of time prior to an attack. They are not sophisticated or expensive artillery pieces but they do the job well.
The Germans really didn’t like it when the Russians brought the King Of Battle to bear, no.
I had to look up “Karman Line” and yes it would have been well short of that. It did fly well into the Stratosphere tho.
The Germans figured out that once it got that high, there was very little air resistance which greatly increased the range.
Rule of thumb is 1,000 feet in elevation for every klick in range. Nothing classified. 40 miles = ~ 66 klicks = ~66,000 feet up.
Its mazing how cool the USAF gets with “Big sky, little Bullet” clearance of fires when the enemy rounds are impacting outside their own hooches.
One of the best comments I ever heard on this was when a flyboy was whining about clearance in Korea and the Artilleryman asked him if KJU would also clearing fires with them...
It’s not a rocket assist, it’s more like a flare to increase the air pressure at the rear of the projectile.
In Vietnam, I think I heard the max ord for a 175 was 33,000 ft. That figure always went through your head when climbing aboard a Huey.
That was before Bull’s multi firing superduper long tange cannon.
The shell fired as described in the article is a rocket assisted projectile. You’re thinking of a base-bleed shell, which the Swedes engineered - not Bull. Bull bought the rights from the Swedes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_bleed
Would like to see them do all the tests fired to the south...
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