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Portee.

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My beloved

>>65191337
This seems like it would both be hilarious effective and ineffective at the same time. I see that truck suffering a lot of damage from recoil.

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>>65191306

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26296200
> The application of firepower on the battlefield was an absolute obsession for Van Fleet from the moment he arrived in Korea. He realized that China had an almost limitless supply of manpower that could be fed into the furnace of battle, while he was already outnumbered and had been briefed that he could expect to receive no significant reinforcements.
> As Van Fleet saw it, the only way to counter the infantry-dense Chinese assault formations was to meet them with powerful artillery fire. Shortly after the first impulse of the Chinese Fifth Phase Offensive was thrown back in April, Van Fleet circulated a directive to all artillery battalion commanders in Korea, stipulating a new rate of fire that would be expected of them during any future enemy attack. Dubbed the Van Fleet Load, this directive called on gunners to achieve a rate of fire five times that utilized during previous operations in the Korean War.
> Van Fleet inspected the IX Corps sector of the front just east of Seoul and told the corps commander, General Hoge, that “this line is the best place to kill the Chinamen. It’s better to do it here and now—this month and the next. I want lots more wire and mines expended, not human life.”
> "I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if the CCF doesn’t expend a full army attacking in column of divisions against this position and the way the men feel about it is that the Chinks will be piled ten deep before their position is breached. Just for good measure, I am going to give them some engineers to improve the defenses and a little thickening up with 155 millimeter and 8-inch howitzers. I too, want to go back to that spot and see those Chinks piled up like cordwood."
> By 28 April 1951, the first wave of the Chinese Fifth Phase Offensive had spent itself and Peng’s battered divisions broke contact and limped northward having suffered an estimated 79,000 casualties for no tangible gain.

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Just found a game called IRON NEST: Heavy Turret Simulator, feels perfect for artilleryfags like me

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>>65191421

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>>65191319

>>65192353
>200 rounds of 155mm
>per gun
>per day
We truly live in the ruins of once great civilizations

>>65191614
>>65191432
What if these two had a baby (203mmXswedish autoloader)

>>65192353
What does that do to accuracy and barrel life?
It's better than being overrun and you don't need precision accuracy in that case but how quickly does that toast your rifling?

>>65193728
We still had WW2 stockpiles and production capacity

>>65193749
I was aware. That doesn't answer my question.

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>>65193169
Get on my level

>>65193436
>Commies waited until after we nuked the japs to do anything, despite the billions of dollars of supplies we sent them
I hate them so much.

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>>65193996

>>65193804
What are you talking about? They bled half to death in Europe with all that equipment.

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>>65193169

>>65193804
They did rape and kill most of the occupants of Berlin.
No nukes got them there.

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>Developed by Ansaldo, these two models were similar in design. The guns had good ballistic properties for their caliber, but their stabilized mountings were too advanced for their time and experienced many technical faults. The mountings were stabilized in four axes; training, elevation, roll correction and pitch correction. Eleven gyros were used in a very complex arrangement to maintain stabilization. RPC was fitted but removed from the Duilo class in 1942, apparently because of water damage. The Littorio class had their mountings located much higher and retained RPC. However, even these ships suffered from frequent electrical and mechanical breakdowns.

>>65194298
>>65194693
And they didn't do shit on the pacific front for years.

>>65198140
I really love this so much and I can't describe why.

>>65197860
They beat the brakes off the Japanese before WW2 proper started, and forced Japan into a non-aggression pact, a treaty they upheld until the tail end of the war, which allowed them to focus on the absolute hell-of-hells that was the eastern front, which saw millions more people die than the pacific or western fronts

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>>65194011

>>65198486
>Laughs in Tsushima
Your weak commie asses were terrified, so you hemmed and hawed, because you knew the funding would keep coming because you had no problem killing Germans by merely throwing bodies at them.
Strategic cowards and tactical retards.

more artillery pics pls

>>65200703
What are you even talking about

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Infantry gun fags assemble!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GomBwcDOKT0

>>65193749
Apparently not quite. More recent research has shown that many factories had gone back to civilian manufacturing or closed. I don't know if you've watched The Korean War by Indy Neidell, but it shows industrial capacity and general manpower had greatly decreased for the US following the end of World War 2. The US Army had gone from 89 divisions to 10 in just a few years.

I could be completely wrong though and I'm happy to learn more here.

>>65193519
I will use this in coomer threads

>>65192783
>Such a huge fucking mount for a 20mm peashooter that'll only get it's load onto target AFTER the target has dropped IT'S load
Italians were fucking retarded.
Their 37mm AA gun only had the breech recoil backwards which made a shitload of vibrations so the mount had to be built up so it was twice as heavy as needed.

>>65206630
Look at those flanges

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>>65206616
Its not as bad as the German 37mm used by the Kriegsmarine.

>>65210106
The Germans at least made a perfectly acceptable automatic 37mm flak cannon for their ships though. And used the 40mm bofors.
The Italians derped out and thought they could make an autoloaded 65mm flak.

>>65210132
>40mm bofors
Kriegsmarine had them on boats/ships?

>>65210399
Yep. Called them the Flak 28

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>>65210132
The Germans did eventually make an auto-loading system for their 150mm flaks.

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>>65210132
If they had managed to get the feed and electric issues sorted it may have been a pretty great gun but alas was not to be.

any pics of the twin 57 mm Kriegsmarine?

>>65213541
Kriegsmarine never had a 57mm?

>>65213804
sorry meant the 5.5 cm / 55 mm

>>65213825
Gerät 58? If that is the one I don't a twin mount was ever made outside of drawings. Whole project was shelved after three guns were made.

>>65213541
No twins were made, only singles.
>>65213922
Project was never shelved, they wanted bigger better AA guns. The war ended, so development ended.
Or rather, the Soviets captured the guns and turned them into 57mm AA guns

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>>65213922
>>65214561
also they had never-built schemes for a twin turret SPAAG (for Panther chassis, I think it'd have been better for Tiger II... the twin 37 was more suited to Panther)

>>65218823
Panther chassis can handle twin 55mm if the postwar soviet 57mm AA twins existed.
King tiger is just too fucking expensive to waste on AA.

>>65218833
>King tiger is just too fucking expensive to waste on AA.
Surprised they didn't make an AA Maus then?