Post boom-booms, big and small
>>64948041
MADE IN KOREA, with chuddy hands.
>>64948153Need one for home defense, could a toyota camry tow this?
>>64948194Miniature LSW tire. Weird to see it outside of tractors.(low side wall)
>>64948054
Now draw each and every one of these artillery pieces as anime girls!
>>64948114This thing was funny. Intended on being a new autoloaded AA gun for the Italian navy.Italians as usual fucked up, ended up not being fielded on any operational ships and the autoloader was judged to be too complicated so they manually loaded the thing for 1/4th it's ROF.
Tiny boom.
Supercharge, Supercharge, Supercharge, All callsigns fire!
>>64949661This legit seems like a great idea ahead of time considering that a lot of AT guns in WW2 were never really used against tanks but fortifications and other static positions.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nOkO8Sh2xsis this cannon?
>>64949673>Company of HeroesAh, the game that was my gateway drug into /k/
>>64951746Pak97/38 is one of my favorite 'german' weapons.French 1897 75mm, except ripped off it's original mount and put onto a Pak 38 50mm AT gun mount.Then strengthened, given a new muzzle brake, and expected to sling HEAT rounds at T-34's and KV-1's.Worked pretty good too, keep in mind this French piece of shit was the German's premium tier AT weapon for a period of time.
>>64949673>CohDamn don't just hit me with that nostalgia without warning bro, i sunk so many goddamn hours in that fuckin game
>>64951755>Heat roundsYeah cause that was the only viable choice for AT purposes with its muzzle velocity suckin dick. If i remember correct they captured so many of them that they really had to find a use for them
Russian A-222 130mm naval gun and a mobile Termit launcher. The gun truck is really cool.
>>64952252Nope, they were happy to use them for fortifications, artillery, etc.The reason they got turned into AT guns was because the Pak38 wasn't cutting it against Russian heavies. But a 3 inch HEAT shell could get through their armor.
>>64952262>>64952272what was the rationale of making a modern coastal artillery piece?
>>64952302I don't quite know...especially when the Msta-S is 152mm and is already in service with their naval infantry.
>>64951755>>64952252>>64952287A lot of people forget just how reliant the Germans were on captured equipment early war when especially when it came to artillery. A lot of their better equipment was Czech and French when it came to mobile guns that could actually do shit against enemy armor. >inb4 muh 88 Which for all practical purposes took forever to setup so by the time it was deployed enemy had gotten bored and gone home.>>64952302Defense against torpedo boats!
>>64948041Speaking fo artillery, massive Russia losses for days now10.03.2026Tanks — 11758 (+13)Armored fighting vehicle — 24174 (+7)Artillery systems — 38202 (+73)MLRS — 1679 (+4)Anti-aircraft warfare — 1328 (+2)Planes — 435Helicopters — 349UAV — 168809 (+2169)Cruise missiles — 4403Ships (boats) — 31Submarines — 2Cars and cisterns — 82510 (+221)Special equipment — 4087 (+4)Military personnel — aprx. 1274990 people (+950)
>>64948125I was inside one of these as a marine conscript. Someone had forgotten the hatch at the back unlatched, so I rallied the shady bunch of NCO's and officer aspirants of our platoon to do a little snooping. It was fascinating to see old markings in Russian on the gun itself, which had clearly been once upgraded with not only the protective turret itself, but with hydraulics and stuff. These upgrades had been mostly stripped out, though. They no doubt ripped out anything of value back when they were officially decommissioned.She was in great condition otherwise. The whole thing turned smoothly with just one hand on the crank.
>>64956990Interesting anectdote, thanks anon. For some reason I thought it was Finland that made those, but I guess it was the Soviets?
>>64949642Yeah, they tried quite a few advanced things for their time, but did not have the industry to mass produce them or get them fully working well. Found the manually loaded version
>>64958006>sees Germany building the shittiest 37mm AA gun ever made, literally just a 37mm manually operated PAK gun aiming into the sky>What if we made it slightly bigger and more Czech!? How could we lose!?
>>64957927Oh no, the Russian Empire. I checked it out, and the barrels were upgraded post-war for (mostly*) domestically produced ones, but the mounts themselves were original. I must've seen the markings on those. The shrapnel-shields were added in the 60's.There's surprisingly concise info (in a positive sense) about them on English Wikipedia, actually:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/152_mm_45_caliber_Pattern_1892#Finnish_use*The billets were ordered from Ruhrstahl as "axle steel", and though shipped as steel axle billets, they were composed of something entirely else through a wink-wink nudge-nudge arrangement with the Germans.
>>64966275Cute butt
>>64948054I miss military today.Was a pretty cool site.
>>64962207Is that the automatic 8'' they tested in the 1970s?
Cold war era AAA guns are criminally underrated. Sure, guided missiles may be more effective, but not even nearly as cool.Allah willing, the modern tactic of using spamming dozens of cheap-ass kamikaze drones to overwhelm hyper-expensive guided missile will prompt the return of rapid-fire large-bore AA guns.
>>64966738yep it is
The Dutch Navy operated the most advanced naval AA-system for a short period in 1941. A self-contained, triaxially stabilized, radar assisted double barreled 40mm Bofors gun. This was at a time that Bismarck worked with single shot 37mm guns.
>>64967782>A self-contained, triaxially stabilized, radar assisted double barreled 40mm Bofors gun.Hot damn, that is pretty advanced for its time. I searched for more info and found a wiki page about ithttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazemeyer_gun_mount
K/ while slow and dumb and not good at driving, still can create a cool thread
Superbonker 9000 ofc
>>64948189This thing is fucking adorable.
upskirt shot
>>64948105Forever mad this wasn't used and deployed.
>>64948105the back of this thing makes me horny
>>64970363
>>64948165I looked it up. The anwer's no, unfortunately. An M101 howitzer weighs 2 1/2 tons, which is waaaaaaaaay beyond the Camry's towing capacity.
>>64948165>>64974834What you want is an 75mm M1 pack howitzer.
>>64974842The good ol' days when "mule-portable" was a design requirement.
>>64974848Still is for some equipment. Really don't underestimate using pack animals for logistics.
>>64962304>French_M1916_37mm_infantry_gunThere is something similar in Battlefield 1. I could never understand why such weapons ware discontinued after WW1, they would make great mobile AA & support weapons.
>>64976670Autocannons basically made them obsolete. Could do exact same job as an infantry support gun with much greater ROF while also acting as an AA gun in a pinch.
>>64976972>>64976670And grenade launchers, which were more portable and packed more explosives.
>>64976670They've were superseded by recoilless rifles, shoulder-fired rocket launchers, and grenade launchers.All of which are more portable and offer greater firepower, either in terms of munition size, or rate of fire.
twin 155mm howitzers on Austrian river monitors
>>64976670All of these >>64976972 >>64977139 >>64978792 and mortars were better at dealing with what they were originally designed for
42cm howitzer "Schlanke Gretl" (skinny Margeret), Austrias pendant to the Dicke Berta (fat Berta).used to rub italian forts off some mountain cliffs.Here to be seen in its form as the ultimate man cave. NO GIRLS ALLOWED
>>64978917I'd say it's the ultimate pillow fortress with that comfy blanket over it.
>>64978917howitzersits my favourite thing
its gonna blow your roof off mate
Max&Moritz most funny prankswere delivered at Stalingrad
dual wield?dual tracks!
Thor on tracks on railsfor when you are both a gun and a train nut
>>64978916It was kind of interesting that for the most part mortars were widely seen as obsolete and were effectively extinct before the start of WW1 then trench warfare happened and they were suddenly resurrected. Supposedly they were even bringing mortars from the Napoleonic era out of museums to fight because they had nothing else suited to the task.
>>64985168Is that a 3.7inch on a truck?
>>64986367Looks like a BL 4" Mk VII
>>64986787You're right. I finally found it. Initially thought it was an attempt at a mobile AA gun and the 3.7inch looks vaguely similar. The rear was what was initially throwing me.
>>64979520https://www.passioncompassion1418.com/Canons/Eng_AfficheCanonGET.php?IdCanonAffiche=420 yeah they used old bronze mortars but those were post- Le Petit CaporalEh not really?Mortars were developed consistently during the 19th centuryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8-inch_mortar_M1877https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=226744
>>64988273There's a huge world of difference anon between a 9 ton siege mortar and a 1 ton portable design. There's wasn't really that many of them in the 19th century and those that were around were generally meant for coastal defence or siege breaking.
Spain was probably the last country to stop using large caliber coastal artillery.
>>64995367As salvaged from Jaime I
Finland apparently still has coastal artillery batteries in active use
>>64999727nice cabriolet
