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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #26 on: July 20, 2022, 01:00:24 AM »
I'm putting this here as it seemed most appropriate:

2A42 30mm autocannon from a destroyed Russian BMD-2 IFV being added on an improvised mounting.

https://youtu.be/OaOO1JvnU7U - not sure about the barrel bending

Firing:

https://youtu.be/Wl2_rX3tEXs
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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #27 on: July 20, 2022, 02:56:18 AM »
When I was playing with mortars they were still all infantry.
Heres a clip of a Finnish 120 mm mortar squad with the task to fire a 60 second / 12 round offensive burst. The first round goes at 1:07 into the clip. They have a snag with a loose charge bag and the timing goes a little wrong at the end, so they don't fire a round on 60 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFsYfOi42Mc

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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #28 on: July 20, 2022, 10:38:54 AM »
I'm putting this here as it seemed most appropriate:

2A42 30mm autocannon from a destroyed Russian BMD-2 IFV being added on an improvised mounting.

https://youtu.be/OaOO1JvnU7U - not sure about the barrel bending

Firing:

https://youtu.be/Wl2_rX3tEXs

That firing sequence is scary! :o

Needs more mass at the front. ::)
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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #30 on: July 26, 2022, 04:55:15 AM »
When I was playing with mortars they were still all infantry.
Heres a clip of a Finnish 120 mm mortar squad with the task to fire a 60 second / 12 round offensive burst. The first round goes at 1:07 into the clip. They have a snag with a loose charge bag and the timing goes a little wrong at the end, so they don't fire a round on 60 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFsYfOi42Mc

I guess if you're not going to bother checking the sights and re-laying the mortar after every round...hope its well bedded in!


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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #31 on: July 26, 2022, 12:34:24 PM »
When I was playing with mortars they were still all infantry.
Heres a clip of a Finnish 120 mm mortar squad with the task to fire a 60 second / 12 round offensive burst. The first round goes at 1:07 into the clip. They have a snag with a loose charge bag and the timing goes a little wrong at the end, so they don't fire a round on 60 seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFsYfOi42Mc

I guess if you're not going to bother checking the sights and re-laying the mortar after every round...hope its well bedded in!


They tend to be careful about getting the mortar bedded in.. And they check the sights and levels after every round.

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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #32 on: September 21, 2022, 12:33:46 PM »
« Last Edit: September 21, 2022, 12:54:30 PM by Story »

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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #33 on: December 02, 2022, 01:57:27 AM »
When you absolutely, positively have to irritate a target have a 400 round pan for your Lewis.


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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #34 on: December 09, 2022, 01:38:37 AM »
Czechoslovak experimental RPG with revolver 4 round magazine, 61mm, circa 1947 (Military history institute Prague - The army museum ˇi˛kov)


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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #36 on: July 07, 2023, 01:10:34 PM »
Some WWII time guns seen at a museum last weekend:
https://sakylantalvijajatkosotamuseo.fi/the_museum_of_winter_and_continuation_war/

- 20mm double anti-aircraft gun made by the Finnish "Valtion kivääritehdas" (State Rifle Factory)
- 37mm Bofors anti-tank gun
- 75mm M1917 gun and Soviet 20mm anti-aircraft gun



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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #38 on: November 10, 2023, 03:48:00 AM »
15mm BESA on a ground mount. Interesting as it shows the scale comparison to men.



Imagine being wedged into a Vickers turret with that thing
« Last Edit: November 10, 2023, 03:54:17 AM by Story »

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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #39 on: November 10, 2023, 11:26:13 PM »
Not that bad, really. Could be a lot worse.

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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #40 on: November 11, 2023, 05:50:47 AM »
15mm BESA on a ground mount. Interesting as it shows the scale comparison to men.




Imagine being wedged into a Vickers turret with that thing


I wouldn't be that bad, Looking at the gun in my edited picture, the trunnion is inside the green circle, and everything inside the blue circle would be removed, as this only seems to be needed for the tripod mounted version.






and on the tank, again, the trunnion is inside the green circle, so there wouldn't really be that much of the weapon inside the turret . . .








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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #41 on: November 17, 2023, 03:25:07 AM »



Answering my own question above, it seams as though this was a 37mm anti-tank gun being trialled - potentially over 400 of these were actually made:
 


Tripped over this just now

https://topwar.ru/15502-37-mm-aviadesantnaya-ptp-obrazca-1944-goda-chk-m1.html





« Last Edit: November 17, 2023, 03:29:49 AM by Story »

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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #42 on: December 22, 2023, 10:04:50 PM »


Silly NorKs

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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #43 on: January 24, 2024, 08:55:21 AM »
Part of a discussion elsewhere about the King Howitzer (so started out as a land weapon), transitioned to a boat gun.
 http://gunneyg.info/html/KHp1.htm


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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #44 on: February 13, 2024, 06:14:45 AM »
Gunnery training turrets in North Africa. Note the .303 SMLEs as subcaliber trainers


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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #45 on: February 13, 2024, 06:31:43 AM »
Gunnery training turrets in North Africa. Note the .303 SMLEs as subcaliber trainers

Cool! That scene would make for an interesting little diorama  :smiley:
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Re: Crew Served Weapons
« Reply #46 on: February 13, 2024, 06:38:14 AM »
Sweden & Switzerland among others are still doing this to modern turrets.