Artillery general.
Any arty pics and discussion
Artillery general
Robert Ward
Jason Roberts
I heard that when the navy shoots those big guns they have to clear the deck because it can do some serious fucking damage not just to your ears but organs and shit. Is that true?
Liam Robinson
This is cool.
Jaxon Adams
Is this thing useful?
Andrew Nguyen
*bloop*
Daniel Ortiz
We got this after the AMOS project died
Can't do direct fire, but has a higher sustained fire rate apparently. Can also be turned manually and have mortar projectiles dropped into the barrel from the outside if anything breaks
Jacob Jackson
Yes. The pressure wave can cause SNT (sudden nerve trauma) which essentially just flicks an off switch to your nervous system by jellying your spinal fluid and brain
Liam Harris
The Yamato class battleships had to store their planes and boats below deck because of the muzzle blast from their main guns.
Kayden Price
Literally two manually loaded tubes in a crippled turret. A regular 120mm in a open-hatch system would be better desu - at least it would have a full traverse.
Eli Hill
>Ywn live in a timeline where the NFA was never drafted and you could buy milsurp howitzers
Matthew Allen
Anyone have any info on how us arty operated in Iraq? And how its logistics worked?
Dylan Ward
Ask an 0811 (Field Arty Cannoneer) anything. I didn’t make the thread but I’m interested
Juan Richardson
How far from the front do you normally operate? What logistics do you require at minimum to operate
Leo Jones
1/?
Nolan Jones
2/?
Jacob Long
3/?
Nathan Gutierrez
Within 5 miles, give or take. Sometimes much closer. Given that would be in a peer vs peer war and the front line would actually exist. Artillery doesn’t leave prepared firebases in counter insurgency wars.
As far as supplies, we can operate with 4-6 Trucks towing the guns, 2-4 ammunition trucks+trailers, a food truck or two, FDC and coms vehicles, and local security.
The supply footprint of just a single battery of artillery is pretty large.
Caleb Robinson
4/?
Adrian Cook
Define crippled
William Kelly
That makes sense, so in the Iraq war arty normally would trail a few miles behind the main force?
Bentley Brooks
All of you, rear the piece, face the piece
Jason Campbell
Yes, arty in the Iraq war had times to set up and fire at night or when forces were about to enter major cities.
Dylan Sanders
That looks cool.
Hudson Lopez
Do you actually hear the sounds of incoming like in the movies and videogames? Or is that shit hollywood bullshit?
Logan Collins
You do hear it.
At least, we train like we can hear the whistle. Our artillery sims make the whistle
Xavier Scott
Anecdotal from my pops in Kuwait, but according to him outgoing arty has the whistle sound, incoming sounds like a jet and a freight train; according to him the first time he took incoming fire he was looking overhead for jets, that's how similar it sounded
Easton Turner
Yes, you can hear both outgoing and incoming artillery.
Jackson Kelly
>Sounds like a jet and a freight train
>freight train
based and redpilled
Jack Taylor
Thanks user.
Angel Peterson
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
Daniel Lee
NO, FUCK YOU! I'M NOT GAY!
Ryder Ward
Whats the radius from impact for shrapnel that stays lethal. When is shrapnel no longer going fast enough to warrant a fuck to give?
>Starting with 155mm HE but it can be for whatever
Lincoln Reed
Hunter Richardson
Should I join an arty regiment near me?
Lincoln Bailey
think about what your M44 Nugget does to the people next to you on the range. Amplify that by 1000 times.
Levi Williams
Where has the time gone?
Hunter Perez
Cool vid of some Canuck m777's bringing the rain in Kandahar
Jonathan Thompson
Nicholas Rodriguez
Sebastian Wilson
Jacob Powell
Jace Peterson
Mortar tank?
Christopher Nelson
Oh my goodness, that'd be a damn shame if arty was for that
Carter Perez
TYRES HISSIN?
David Perry
I wish. Thatd be badass.
OP here. Am a 61.
Depending on what MOS you're going for sure. Arty can be pretty fun.
You can hear arty flying over your head. It's not bullshit.
Christopher Moore
The beast
>75km gun range
Landon Johnson
Leaf arty here henlo!
Hudson Rodriguez
Leo James
Ryder Howard
I went to Iraq in 07 and afgh in 09.as an 0811 Both times we left 2 guns on base and the rest of the company became a provisional rifle company. Pretty much basic infantry shit.
Arty motto semper gumby
Elijah Kelly
Totally different kinds of deployments I guess. It was such a pain to get a fire mission. We pretty much had the guns for show of force and to light up the night while on patrol. Higher ups didn't want to deal with collateral damage so fire missions never got approved. Really only in Afghanistan when they were in the mountains.
Daniel Howard
It depends on the method of detonation.
Regular M795 HE has a casualty radius of over 100 meters when coupled with a PD fuze. A delayed or airburst fuze would change things, but generally just imagine that 155mm artillery is incredibly destructive. Shrapnel is lethal way farther than you’d imagine. The actual pressure kill radius isn’t the primary killing mechanism but it’s also a factor, especially if the blast is contained inside of a building for the people inside.
The KILL radius of our standard HE round is 50 meters. Vehicles, including tanks get horribly torn up by shrapnel.
Rahhh
Jose Sanders
Who /D-30/ here?
Chase Robinson
I was also wondering, I saw in a field manual about building fortifications, that if you were to build a bunker by just digging out the ground, and then stacking logs an inch or two in diameter on top. Then put one or two layers of sandbags on top of that, that that should protect the occupants from a direct hit from at least 120 mortars and even 155mm HE. I immediately called shenanigans on that but I don't know. Could that survive a direct hit?
William Nelson
Piece by a strength and conditioning dude who was a supply Marine. He spent some time at an artillery base and wrote this appreciation of it. You might like.
swoleateveryheight.blogspot.com
Dylan Smith
Not op. But we don't just shoot 1 round. Normal battery will have about 6 triple7s. We have done 30 round sweep zones. Which will level out a whole grid square. It's pretty hard to get a direct hit anyways. When I was in the most accurate round was the GPS guided Excalibur round and even that was about 10 meters off on a good day.
Adam Long
Snappy and handy
Easton Watson
Also do a shake n bake. Shoot some HE and follow it with some WP.
Ian Thompson
Definitely would not save you from a 155mm direct hit.
The force of the projectile hitting the ground alone would be enough to kill the occupants inside of an earthen fortification. Wood would be counterproductive and would splinter
Jordan Brooks
STANAG rating equivalence considers 155mm shrapnel at 25m similar to a 25mm APDS; or 30mm at 10m range.
Some shells burst differently than others, so it's possible for the older, irregularly fragmenting 155s to burst in linear strips with a farther danger-close range than newer ones.
Angel Morales
It will not stop a 120mm mortar. Maybe it's a reference to airburst shells that don't directly hit the bunker, or maybe you're thinking of the 5 meter deep bunkers, which can resist a 155 set to PD (but not delay IIRC).
Kevin Brooks
That’s pretty cool. I’d be fine paying a few taxes for this. Beats some of the other stuff that money goes towards
Gabriel Peterson
120mm mortars fill the easily-transportable building/light armor buster role better, but 105mm has good fragmentation efficiency for a non-mortar and is still common internationally.
Gavin Turner
We don’t do this
Aaron Thomas
0811 checkin' in
Lucas White
who is we? you and the mouse in your pocket?
Josiah Mitchell
Excaliburs are overpriced for how they actually perform. We even encountered a few that failed to detonate. Expensive pieces of shit.
Angel Hernandez
We most certainly do, nerd.
Bentley Russell
Okay artilleryfags, how many of you can name this thing without google?
Brandon Ortiz
looks like the early archer prototypes
Jayden Ramirez
Yeah, thats what it is. But whats its name user?
Connor Stewart
Shhhhhh
Daniel Myers
Never at enemy combatants of course. Only at their equipment (which may sometimes be worn or held by enemy combatants).
Zachary Morgan
lol this guy's GF has him whipped
Luke Bell
How much use would artillery have in a modern conventional conflict? Like say Russia mad dashed it across Estonia or some shit because lol fuck the steppe, and you had a couple BCT's deployed to fight them back. Doesn't modern doctrine say to never send any ground forces into any areas whatsoever if they are within enemy artillery range? Or are operating outside of friendly artillery? That and also with the use of counter battery fire, wouldn't the majority of use of artillery be in the form of artillery vs artillery positions rather than arty wiping out ground forces? Cause whats the point for decimating a single company of line infantry if your entire battery gets wacked by counter battery fire?
Essentially, wouldn't a modern conflict be more like a cat and mouse game rather than a slug fest that I'm sure a lot of anons think it would be?
Gabriel Myers
Here you go, the superior method of providing mortar fire.
anywhere, any day of the year, any weather
Ryan Thomas
*yiffs*
Gabriel White
youtu.be
This was a reservist battery that attached to us on deployment. Pretty good vid.
Nolan Thomas
What country fields this?
Joshua Lopez
South Africa and the UAE.
Camden Davis
>1000 nuggets going off at once.
No better way to go entirely deaf.
Juan Adams
Oliver Flores
Over complicated swedish gimmick? I mean why not just self propelled howitzers?
Eli Kelly
cool vid senpai
Cameron Walker
WHAT DID YOU SAY?
Jackson King
Yes
>was shot at with a civil war cannon as a child
Carter Myers
user, that is a self propelled howitzer.
Hudson James
Looks like it's gonna tip over any minute.
Michael Walker
I want to live that pak 40 life
Henry Brooks
>There will never be artillery ranges for you and your fellow cannon owners to chill and put a few shells down range at
Ryder Cook
Well they have those shoot-n-scoot manouvre and along with Multiple rounds same impact (MRSI), means that each self propelled howitzer shoots 5 rounds that land on the same time and it is far gone when those round make impacts.
So the way to counter this is with those new anti artillery systems like the MANTIS for example or air superiority, or really good recon.
Isaiah Russell
How much would the fielding of laser based C-RAM systems effect this shit? imagine each BCT having a small group of mobile laser C-RAM that can be deployed across the Brigades area of operation, covering all battalions from rockets and artillery.
Nicholas Myers
you cant spell fag without FA.
Robert Butler
Tyler Wilson