ferretfixer Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 Looking round......No one here at present........BANG! :nut: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rnixartillery Posted February 10, 2010 Share Posted February 10, 2010 You beat me to it ! :cheesy: May I thank the staff for their kind understanding towards us gunners and the problems we have. If you cant pick it up,its a real Gun ! :nut: Rob................................rnixartillery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Also known over here as cannon cockers. I recall reading of artillery units being used in No Africa ? and other areas in ground defence , that they depressed the guns to fire horizontally and wrote of firing over open sights , basically aiming down the gun barrel I take it . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schliesser92 Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Also known over here as cannon cockers. I recall reading of artillery units being used in No Africa ? and other areas in ground defence , that they depressed the guns to fire horizontally and wrote of firing over open sights , basically aiming down the gun barrel I take it . Yes, that's correct. My father's battery in Northern France actually engaged a German tank (Tiger?) over open sights with a 5.5" gun! - apparantly some SS unit got around behind the lines and ended up in front of the battery. Change of underwear for all. My father, being a battery surveyor, was actually, in this particular case "behind enemy lines". In North Africa, anti-tank regiments were actually using 25pdrs (firing 20pd solid shot) in this mode.With heavier guns, this was relatively rare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alan turner (RIP) Posted February 22, 2010 Share Posted February 22, 2010 Armourer magazine carried some letters a while back about firing over open sites for the 3.7in AA gun, replies came in about Tobruk and actions against tanks before being overrun. The gun was given Ammunition after the war to enable normal firing for Malaya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ferretfixer Posted February 22, 2010 Author Share Posted February 22, 2010 Also known over here as cannon cockers. I recall reading of artillery units being used in No Africa ? and other areas in ground defence , that they depressed the guns to fire horizontally and wrote of firing over open sights , basically aiming down the gun barrel I take it . Firing over open sights is Known in Artillery terms as 'Point Blank Range'! :shocked: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abn deuce Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 (edited) Just thinking of the German 88 originally built as an AAA gun , they found when used in a last ditch defence against ground targets it made a Great AT weapon and then mounted in the Tiger and King Tiger as the main weapon . Pardon if I used or left out any of the others tanks it was used in . Edited February 23, 2010 by abn deuce spelling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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