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cottage cheese
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by cottage cheese » Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:18 pm
mismisra";p="27172 wrote:IFG has a lot of keen individuals the knw level is amazing glad to share it with you,Q which is the largest aerial gun ever used in action ?.this should get the boys in!
75mm T13E1 'howitzer' on a B25H?...wait... I think it was a 105 on an AC130 Specter Gunship
....was it?
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Mack The Knife
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by Mack The Knife » Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:17 pm
I think it was a 105 on an AC130 Specter Gunship
As far as I know, that is the correct answer.
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Grumpy
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by Grumpy » Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:09 pm
That`s what I thought also.......and it does appear to be the case however I was surprised to discover during a quick search that the AC130 was not the first aircraft to be fitted with a 105mm gun as during WWII an Italian Piaggio P108 bomber was experimentally fitted with a 105mm cannon. The aircraft - and its gun - never saw combat.
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mismisra
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by mismisra » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:42 pm
Great going guys extremly good except the spectre gun has now been changed . The 105 was first introduced on the Haw ker Huricane in N Africa only on one Sqn
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by Mack The Knife » Fri Sep 21, 2007 9:53 pm
mismisra";p="27309 wrote:The 105 was first introduced on the Haw ker Huricane in N Africa only on one Sqn
The Hurricane was a bit too small and light for 105mm's weight and recoil. If true, it must have made one heck of a tank buster. Do you have any links to this?
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mismisra
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by mismisra » Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:00 pm
yOU ARE RIGHT THAT IS WHY ONLY one sqn .The damn thing used to take the wing off in the pull out.These guys doled out some success except they had to cange the wing besides refueling in the TRS
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Grumpy
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by Grumpy » Fri Sep 21, 2007 10:01 pm
"Great going guys extremly good except the spectre gun has now been changed . The 105 was first introduced on the Haw ker Huricane in N Africa only on one Sqn"
WHAT ? !!!
A squadron of Hawker Hurricanes might have been shot down with a 105 mm gun but no Hurrican was ever fitted with one.........where the heck would you mount a gun that size on a Hurricane ?
The Hurricane IID and IV were fitted with a pod under each wing in which were mounted a pair of Vickers S 40mm guns. These were the planes used as ground attack aircraft in North Africa and were known as the `Flying Can Openers`.
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by Mack The Knife » Fri Sep 21, 2007 11:19 pm
The damn thing used to take the wing off in the pull out.
Which suggests (I could be wrong) that they were wing mounted and that there were two of them - one on each wing.
I find this very hard to believe. Can you tell us where you got this information from?
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Sakobav
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by Sakobav » Sat Sep 22, 2007 6:19 am
As Grumpy pointed out 105 mm is a field gun and howitzer was fitted only on C 130 during Vitenam war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_AC-130
Incidently India is purchasing 12 or 16 of C-130Js for transport wing. Great plane just like good old Dak or DC3.
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mismisra
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by mismisra » Sat Sep 22, 2007 2:19 pm
G is right i got my facts wrong it was the 40 mm.the 75mm was on the B25 and the MosquitoX 105 only on theC 130 just to place things right we are not in for the C130.
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