Strap, Carrying, M1 In Use with Pad, Shoulder, M2 http://www.90thidpg.us/Equipment/Weapons/81Backpack/index.html

I think they were replaced by rifle grenades, grenade launchers, and RPGs

Like the RAW, which was very accurate due to spin stabilization
Similar to why a .45 can theoretically be more accurate than a .22, the length to width ratio

It could hit moving trucks at 300m

An offset angle to the launch also kept the trajectory rather flat, as the exhaust compensated for drop somewhat

It featured a primitive yet ingenious optical fuse, and multiple mission modes

By the way are RPGs in general considered artillery? It's technically a recoilless gun/rocket hybrid...

Related rifle launched version

>>19334

how about a look at this thing for giggles

>>19350

Two French Army Giat GCT 155mm (155mm AUF1) self-propelled guns, 40th Regiment d' Artillerie, with IFOR markings are parked at Hekon base, near Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in support of Operation Joint Endeavor.

Our artillery... The Germans feared it almost more than anything we had.
- Ernie Pyle, Brave Men (1944)

And what is the modern war, it's an interesting question, what it requires? It requires massive artillery. In modern warfare, artillery is a god... Artillery, massive artillery decides the fate of the war.
- Josef Stalin (1940)

"The poorer the infantry, the more artillery it needs; the American infantry needs all it can get."
- French General Koechlin-Schwartz, speaking to U.S. General George S. Patton on two occasions. "The Patton Papers, 1940-1945"; George Smith Patton, Martin Blumenson; Houghton Mifflin (1972); pp.520-521.

I don't have cool pictures of artillery doing cool shit but this thread has inspired me to dig out my copy of From the Earth to the Moon. The Baltimore Gun Club could be composed of all OpChan members. I just wonder which of us would be Impey Barbicane.

>>19367
Post more cute cannons!

>>19531
OK.
- US .22 caliber 1 to 100 scale model baby cannon, 1933.

US WW2 75mm M1 Pack Howitzer (post-war designation M116).

US WW2 75mm M8 (Scott) Howitzer Motor Carriage.

105mm light gun on tow behind a Pinzgauer.

Another light gun on the deck of HMS Bulwark. Photo ruined by some normal walking in front of my camera.

AS90 155mm SPG, taken at Stirling Armed forces day 2014.

>>19819
Look at him smiling.
"durrr are you taking a picture of me?"

No faggot MOVE!

  Jahannam (Hell) Cannon: The cannon barrel is about 3 feet long, mounted on wheels and towed. It is muzzle loaded. Explosive powder such as ammonium nitrate is first dropped into the muzzle and ramrodded with a wooden stick.

The projectile is a re-purposed gas cylinder filled with explosives and shrapnel (the payload). Welded to the payload is about a 2 foot metal tube (the tail) about the same circumference as the cannon's muzzle. The full length of the tail is inserted into the muzzle, forming a tight seal inside the cannon. The payload remains outside the muzzle but still attached to the tail now inside the cannon. When the cannon is fired, the force of the explosion takes the path of least resistance pushing the projectile towards the target at high velocity. Flight stabilizing fins which are part of the tail ensemble ensure the cylinder doesn't tumble.

The projectile weighs up to about 88 pounds with three quarters of the weight as explosives. The projectile reportedly has a range of 1.5 kilometers.

There are believed to be 20 such cannons as of December 2014. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_artillery_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War
https://youtu.be/TdGDIegH1S8

That Syrian Civil War thread in /w/ is locked.
- An improvised mortar in Syria with a projectile fashioned from a gas cylinder.
Very much like spigot launchers such as trench mortars or anti-submarine hedgehogs that were mounted on the bows of WW2 destroyers.

Quad Hell Cannon:
A quad hell cannon fired four Hell Cannons at once. However, the model was reportedly no longer manufactured after it was bombed by a military helicopter during the battle of Ard al-Hamra. However, an April 2015 video showed a quad hell cannon being used by the Levant Front in the province of Aleppo, in the village of Paschkoa (ar). It was mounted on a front-loading earth mover. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improvised_artillery_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War

  And here's the tractor-mounted quad hell cannon in action.
The video does not show if the tractor was used to "shoot-and-scoot" and move the cannon quickly away after firing so that counter-battery fire cannot easily destroy the cannon.
https://youtu.be/1v1jeZymwPE

The DIY community in Syria is just amazing.

I bet they would love to get their hands on a few of these beauties.
The 2S35 Koalytsia-SV is the latest Russian artillery system. It was developed as a successor to the 2S19 Msta-S. First demonstrator of this self-propelled howitzer was completed in 2006. It was unique and had two 152-mm guns. However for some reason twin-barrel design was abandoned. In 2013 a new prototype of the Koalitsiya-SV was completed. It had a different design and only one gun. A first batch of 12 artillery systems was delivered to the Russian Army in 2015. Currently it is one of the most capable howitzers in the world.
Even though the Koalitsiya-SV resembles the older 2S19 Msta-S, it is a totally different system. It has unmanned turret and is armed with a 152-mm gun. It has a fully automated ammunition loading and handling system and utilizes modular charge system. This artillery system can fire a wide range of munitions, including standard and rocket-assisted HE-FRAG projectiles, cluster projectiles with anti-tank submunitions, jammer carrying projectiles. Range of fire with standard projectile is around 30 km and around 40 km with rocket-assisted projectile. A new long-range precision-guided round has been developed. It has a maximum range of 70 km. The Koalitsiya-SV It is also capable of firing older Krasnopol precision guided munitions with a range of 20 km.
Maximum rate of fire is around 8 rounds per minute. It seems that the Koalitsiya-SV is capable of multiple round simultaneous impact firing. This artillery system carries impressive onboard ammunition supply of around 60 to 70 rounds.
The Koalitsiya-SV has a high level of automation. It allowed to reduce the crew. This artillery system is operated by a crew of only 3 soldiers.
This artillery system has got no dedicated reloading vehicle, but there is a built-in ammunition reloading system at the rear of the turret that allows to load ammunition from resupply truck. http://www.military-today.com/artillery/top_10_self_propelled_howitzers.htm

152mm self-propelled gun 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV (in the streets of Moscow on the way to or from the Red Square) 9 May 2015

The 2S35 is expected to have a very high level of automation that will dramatically reduce the crew number, to perhaps just two or three people located in an armored capsule below the two front hull hatches.

Armament - Initial reports describe the main armament as a 2A88 152 mm gun with a range of up to 70 kilometers using precision-guided rounds and up to 40km with standard rounds that are currently used on Msta-S. The claimed average rate of fire is around 16 rounds per minute,(15+) with a maximum rate of 20 rounds per minute. 2S35's rate of fire was improved due to the new pneumatic loader. Estimated ammunition load is around 60-70 rounds and using a special loader vehicle the recharge time for full ammunition load is 15 minutes. The 2S35 will feature a modular ammunition charge system, which allows to change the amount of propellant used in firing of each individual shell.

The secondary armament equiped on 2S35 is a 12.7 mm X 108 mm ZiD Kord Remote weapon station.

Unified command-and-control - The 2S35 is not a classic SPG, but rather a highly robotised complex, with a high degree of automation. The 2S35 has a unified command-and-control system with which all actions are displayed. The system can automatically select the appropriate shell type for a task and the amount of charge required.

The turret is fully digital and can be controlled remotely through the unified command-and-control system. In the future, the turret may be placed on chassis of the T-14 Armata.

Mobility - The 2S35 was initially reported as being based on the Armata Universal Combat Platform, which in the case of the T-14 Armata and T-15 has seven road wheels. However, the 2S35's on display during the 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade and its rehearsals are not built on the Armata platform but rather on a six-wheeled platform that appears to be a T-90 derived chassis, and later production variants are expected to be based on the unified Armata chassis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2S35_Koalitsiya-SV

AMX-30 Pluton tank in the Musée des Blindés, France.
The Pluton missile was a French nuclear-armed short-range ballistic missile (SRBM) system launched from a transporter erector launcher (TEL) platform mounted on an AMX 30 tank chassis. It was designed to provide the tactical part of French nuclear deterrence during the Cold War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluton_(missile)
Warhead: Nuclear 15 kt of TNT or Nuclear 25 kt of TNT or Conventional High-Explosive
Engine: Single-stage solid
Operational range: 120 km
Speed: 1100 m/s
Guidance system: Inertial

The Škoda 30.5cm Mörser M.11 used by the Austro-Hungarians during the Siege of Belgrade in WWI and the Yugoslav Royal Army postwar, part of Belgrade Military Museum outer exhibition at the Kalemegdan fortress.

Looks like posting in this old thread won't bump it to the front page.
- German WW2 artillery at Utah Beach, Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, France.