Posted on 07/25/2019 3:14:30 PM PDT by PROCON
All the logistics on this weapon must have been insane.
“...I have read that during WWII, more casualties were inflicted by artillery than anything else.” [yarddog, post 41]
Consensus on these numbers isn’t stable.
For decades, most authorities concluded that machine guns killed more soldiers on the Western Front during World War One than any other weapon. Since the 1970s, those estimates have shifted toward artillery being the number one killer in that conflict.
Uncertainties may never go lower, because tens of thousands were killed in action who are still officially missing: bodies dismembered beyond recognition by shelling, buried under rubble from shelling, unrecoverable due to loss of ground, buried in the field in emergency circumstances, ID tags torn off by weapons fire, remains impossible to identify due to decomposition, etc. Cause of death was often impossible to determine.
Bit short on the range if they want to keep “overmatch” - the Russian 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV has been demonstrated to fire out to 40km with legacy projectiles and out to ***80***km with precision guided munitions. This thing is 10-20km short.
70km and 100km are currently vaporware for this thing and relying on a projectile technology that we already decided not to buy for the Navy. The Russians will sell you one that ranges to 80km on the world arms market, today.
See 43.
Words often have several meanings/usages.
Calibers, plural, here means how many bore lengths a field piece has. It is the ratio of inner diameter to length, not the diameter, that matters.
One could have, hypothetically, a 155MM as mortar, as howitzer, and as rifle (gun). The barrel length would determine the classification, and hence use (range and trajectory).
Shotgun bores use a different caliber concept: A 10 Gauge bore would accommodate ten lead balls totalling a pound; a 12 Gauge would need twelve balls; a 20 Gauge would need twenty. (.410 is a rifled weapon caliber designation; it would be about 68 Gauge.)
Automate it heh.
You’re referencing WW1, he’s referencing WW2. Pretty sure that latter one’s not in doubt considering what happened to the Wehrmacht after the Soviets could rearm and they were *properly* introduced to Ivan’s God of Battle. The Germans, characteristically, were rabid about accurate stat keeping and the numbers of German troops that got sliced, diced and pureed by Ivan’s artillery were pretty well documented. Do NOT f**k with Ivan when his artillery is properly set up and ranges on you.
9 minute multiple loop of Ivan sending his greetings via the classic Katyusha batteries in WW2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bWt81vhIyY
I would say “Reason” (Snow Crash reference) but it’s not a gatling or railgun. If it’s as good and as accurate as it promises to be... name it the Sgt. Hathcock.
Twice as far is why you are 2!
On target at 40 miles is pretty impressive. Lots of math involved.
How long is the projectile in the air at that distance?
If my figures are correct a 16 inch 2000 pound shell hitting within 30 feet of the target 20 miles distant in most cases that would be all you need. Every thing not heavily buried and steel reinforced. Would be destroyed.
The Confederate in South Carolina learned That forts built of sand and palm trees fared far better than brick or stone forts.
The sand absorbed the blast
It isn’t enough with modern field fortifications - this is why the GBU-28 was invented.
Twice as good too...
Oh, yeah, what are you trying to start?
You haven’t been around stirring the pot for quite a while!
Been out there stealing kid’s bikes and putting them in the yard’s of other kids? lol
I see you’re going with the “beating swords into plowshares” route. :)
Twice as far is why you are 2!
As I understand it, in lager guns the caliber is the ratio of barrel length to bore. So a 58 caliber gun would have a barrel length 58 times its bore.
Whatever is about to start, we all know it will end with you losing control of your Pooh!
We used tanks so extensively in Iraq that many are worn out and sitting in depot awaiting refurbishment. Field Artillery was present and used extensively in Afghanistan. As one battery commander told me, they moved the dirt out from under the Taliban.
We keep building them and then send them off to remote, dry, desert storage locations.
Where would you get an idea like that?
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