The FReeper Foxhole's TreadHead Tuesday - M109 155mm SP Howitzer Series

To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it

Good afternoon, folks. My dentist appointment went OK this morning. Don't have to go back till January of next year.

Also, I'm very happy that this month's critical update from Windows was just downloaded to my computer with no problems whatsoever. If you have Windows XP and want to take a chance, go ahead and download the update.

BTW the update I just finished downloading is not XP SP 2. rather it's a critical update for Windows. Today's the second day of this month.

61 posted on 09/14/2004 10:12:29 AM PDT by E.G.C.

I never did hear why the Navy version never went forward.
Especially since they were still putting out funds to develop a shell that could do the same things last I knew.
One company put forward an idea for a shell with small thrust rockets on it's side for steering ala the old Dragon.
To make the Copperhead more deadly, give it GPS guidance or thermal imaging backup or have it be able to find stuff on it's own/ radar tracking like the Hellfire II.

*sigh*

62 posted on 09/14/2004 10:33:02 AM PDT by Darksheare (CBS: Arrogance and Hubris personified)

Big gun go BOOM!! bump

63 posted on 09/14/2004 10:59:05 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (I'm a TreadHead, She's a TreadHead, wouldn't you like to be a TreadHead too?)

64 posted on 09/14/2004 11:00:31 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (I'm a TreadHead, She's a TreadHead, wouldn't you like to be a TreadHead too?)

65 posted on 09/14/2004 11:03:24 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (I'm a TreadHead, She's a TreadHead, wouldn't you like to be a TreadHead too?)

To: snippy_about_it

66 posted on 09/14/2004 11:04:40 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (I'm a TreadHead, She's a TreadHead, wouldn't you like to be a TreadHead too?)

To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it

67 posted on 09/14/2004 11:50:03 AM PDT by neverdem (Xin loi min oi)

To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it

Okay, back home for a while, Tuesday may be tank day in the Foxhole, but it's run around day for me. LOL

68 posted on 09/14/2004 1:02:36 PM PDT by Soaring Feather (Poetry is my forte.)

Today's classic warship, USS Dolphin (SS-169)

Dolphin class submarine

Displacement. 1,560
Lenght. 319'1"
Beam. 27'11"
Draft. 13'1"
Speed. 17 k.
Complement. 57
Armament. 1 4", 6 21" tt.

The USS Dolphin (SS-169) bore the name V-7 and the classification SF-10 and SSC-3 prior to her commissioning. She was launched 6 March 1932 by Portsmouth Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. E. D. Toland; and commissioned 1 June 1932, Lieutenant J. B. Griggs in command.

Dolphin sailed from Portsmouth 24 October 1932 for San Diego arriving 3 December to report to Submarine Division 12. She served on the west coast, taking part in tactical exercises and test torpedo firings until 4 March 1933 when she gut underway for the east coast. She arrived at Portsmouth Navy Yard 23 March for final trials and acceptance, remaining there until 1 August.

Dolphin returned to San Diego 25 August 1933 to rejoin Submarine Division 12. She cruised on the west coast with occasional voyages to Pearl Harbor, Alaska, and the Canal Zone for exercises and fleet problems. On 1 December 1937 Dolphin departed San Diego for her new home port, Pearl Harbor, arriving a week later. She continued to operate in fleet problems and training exercises, visiting the west coast on a cruise from 29 September to 25 October 1940.

At Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Dolphin took the attacking enemy planes under fire, then got underway for a patrol in search of Japanese submarines in the Hawaiians. Dolphin departed Pearl Harbor 24 December 1941 on her first war patrol, a cruise in the Marshall Islands that was marked by constant mechanical difficulties, a common situation in submarines of her vintage. Despite these problems, she reconnoitered in the Marshall Islands and gathered important intelligence information in preparation for later air strikes.

She returned to Pearl Harbor 3 February 1942 to refit and make repairs, and got underway once more 14 May. Searching a wide area west of Midway, she patrolled off the island itself during the critical Battle of Midway from 3 to 6 June. She put in to the island, saved by the American victory in battle, for repairs from 8 to 11 June, then returned to her patrol, attacking a destroyer and a tanker with undetermined results before returning to Pearl Harbor 24 July.

Her third war patrol, from 12 October 1942 to 5 December, was in the storm-tossed waters of the Kurile Islands, where she performed reconnaissance essential to the operations which were to keep Japanese bases there largely ineffective throughout the war. The mechanically-troubled Dolphin was withdrawn from combat duty after her return from the stormy northern Pacific.

With younger submarines now available for offensive war patrols, Dolphin was assigned less dramatic but still vital service on training duty at Pearl Harbor until 29 January 1944, when she sailed for exercises in the Canal Zone, and duty as a schoolship at New London Connecticut where she arrived 6 March. She served in this essential task until the end of the war, then was decommissioned 12 October 1945 at Portsmouth Navy Yard. Dolphin was sold for scrap 26 August 1946.

The second of Dolphin's three war patrols was designated as "successful," and she received two battle stars for World War II service.

69 posted on 09/14/2004 1:58:08 PM PDT by aomagrat (Where arms are not to be carried, it is well to carry arms.")

TRUE!

or ROBBERY!

free dixie,sw

70 posted on 09/14/2004 2:20:47 PM PDT by stand watie ( being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. damnyankee is a LEARNED prejudice.)

LOL. Every day has been run around day for us lately.

71 posted on 09/14/2004 6:14:00 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

Her legs are stumps...and her A$$ is phat!!

LOL.

72 posted on 09/14/2004 6:15:25 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

73 posted on 09/14/2004 6:17:10 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)

Just saw a poll where Gulliani beats Hillary by 7 points in New York in 2008

74 posted on 09/14/2004 7:16:16 PM PDT by SAMWolf (13 Witches in a hot tub - a self-cleaning coven!)

Still holding off on SP2?

75 posted on 09/14/2004 7:17:13 PM PDT by SAMWolf (13 Witches in a hot tub - a self-cleaning coven!)

Thanks for the bump, neverdem

76 posted on 09/14/2004 7:18:00 PM PDT by SAMWolf (13 Witches in a hot tub - a self-cleaning coven!)

Snippy and I have been running around most of the day too.

77 posted on 09/14/2004 7:18:25 PM PDT by SAMWolf (13 Witches in a hot tub - a self-cleaning coven!)

Not bad service for a sub built in 1932.

78 posted on 09/14/2004 7:19:36 PM PDT by SAMWolf (13 Witches in a hot tub - a self-cleaning coven!)

To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it; alfa6; SLB; E.G.C.; capocchio; The Mayor; manna; Samwise; bentfeather; ...

SHOVE IT
Participating in a crew drill, Cpl. Jason Young, a native of Manassas, Va., and a first cannoneer of B Battery, 3rd Battalion, 16th Field Artillery Regiment, rehearses placing a 155mm projectile through the breech of a M109 Paladin, Jan.1, 2004.

Motion Models - M109A-6 Paladin
Really liked the 1/35^th bottled water by the driver's hatch.

Kosovo--where Weasel Clark failed to ignite WWIII

MOBILITY! FIREPOWER! ACCURACY!
Describe the Most Deadly and Flexible Arsenal in Vietnam—
Old Reliable Artillery

Engine of Democracy

Well-connected.

Kerry won't sign Standard Form 180 because his accumulated crimes while in uniform would qualify him for keel-hauling (see above).

1908 Clayton Moore Chicago Ill, actor (Lone Ranger)

Kimosabe, this "Kerry" ride up this valley--
before he ride down it.

79 posted on 09/14/2004 7:56:47 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)

Hi Phil!

Great collage and text, thanks.

80 posted on 09/14/2004 8:02:13 PM PDT by Soaring Feather (Poetry is my forte.)

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