Rookie Shooting A Howziter

[Mac67]

http://emuse.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/20138

Don't think he wanted to do that! [:D]

[Arctic Blast]

Uhhh...hmmm...'ow' comes to mind. [X(]

[Kuokkanen]

That's howitzer? Looks more like AT cannon to me [8|]

[Rune Iversen]

6 Pdr./57mm AT gun of WW2 vintage.

[rogueusmc]

Our M198s had 4 feet of recoil and we had a Marine that didn't stand back far enough. It hit him in the small of the back and threw him into the tailgate of the 5-ton...he was on his back for two weeks.

Lee

[piotre]

Ouch!

[Scott_USN]

Did he do something wrong or did the round just go off on closing the breach?

[Arctic Blast]

I find myself wondering if he was on his back in a medical ward...or if they just left him on the ground where he landed. [:D]

[rogueusmc]

ORIGINAL: Scott_USN

Did he do something wrong or did the round just go off on closing the breach?

You fasten a lanyard then step back. Then, holding the lanyard with both hands in front of your beltbuckle, twist your body to pull on the lanyard. My buddy was walking back to firing position and pulled on it accidentally as he was moving.


The M198 155mm howitzer (weighing 7 3/4 tons), using a M203 propellant powder (encased in a composite canister that incinerates upon firing) with a RAP(Rocket Assisted Projectile) round (weighing around 97 pounds), will, upon the lanyard pull, will use all of it's 4 feet of recoil on nitrogen cylinders, the baseplate will come off the ground about 6 inches and the spades (dug in about 3 feet) will move back through the dirt sometimes a 6 inches or so. The round can travel upwards around 20 miles to it's target.

When you aren't used to it, it will seem like the world is coming apart around you.[:D]

Semper Fi,
Lee