what is the biggest gun that you have ever worked on?

[lcordero]

Mine are these:





I worked on the 20mm a handful of times.

[Columbia]

1. Beat this one

155mm B-)

[RoeBear]

2. I'll see your dinky little 155...

...and raise you this:



on edit: this is complete BS on my part,
I never served on a battleship

[lcordero]

5. nope

I can't beat that one:D

[happyslug]

12. You regular Army always get the good stuff

When I was in the the National Guard we still had the old WWII M114A1, not the New M198s.

See:http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/m114.htm

[Columbia]

14. Army??

:puke:

I bleed Marine Corps scarlet and gold.:smoke:

[happyslug]

16. We Reservists also received Marine castoffs.

I remember seeing some "New to us" M151A4s Jeeps waiting to have the "US Marines" painted over by "US Army". That is the story of Military Equipment, first the Airborne and Special Forces, than the Regular Army, than the Marines, than the Israeli Defense Force, than whatever third world dictator needed equipment than the National Guard and Army Reserves.

While I am sorry to call you "Army" instead of "Marine" you were still higher on the Food Chain than us reservists. We received castoffs not only from the Army but also the Marines and whoever else no longer wanted some piece of military crap.

[Columbia]

18. Hey, just a little friendly inter-service ribbing

I do agree with you that reservists get shafted though. Some of the regular Army guys I saw in Iraq had brand new vehicles while everyone else had junk. The Marine Force Recon bubbas had the new Benz jeep-style though with mini-turret mounted SAWS for the driver and passenger. Now, THOSE were really somethin'. :wow:

[slackmaster]

3. I once wrote a storyboard for an Army maintenance comic

Boresighting the 105 mm Howitzer

Back when they had the large-breasted blonde comic character "Connie" who always knew how to do everything.

I'm sure it's become a classic.

[happyslug]

13. Connie was still around in the 1980s

She worn more clothes than she did in the 1960s, but still popular explaning the care and operation of the M16 and other weapons.

[alwynsw]

4. I was a flyboy - a bandsman at that - on active duty

but then I got a taste of the Army reserves and Army National Guard. I got to play with 120mm main guns on Abrams tanks in one unit. The other unit I was in was an ordnance company. The only things we "worked" on besides ammo - up to 5,000 lb. aircraft bombs was demiling LAWS and nasty old bazookas.

[Baclava]

6. Work? hahahah

I'm in the AF...that's what we have airmen for...(OK - just kidding!)

[Columbia]

7. There's nothing sexier

Than a woman with a heavy machine gun. :loveya:

[solinvictus]

8. Browning M2

n/t

[Superfly]

9. A few of mine...

My first big gun was the M-119 105mm howitzer as pictured here:



My next assignment took me to this howitzer (M-109A6 Paladin, 155mm/SP)



Finally, we traded our Paladins in (as part of the Army's Striker Brigade Combat Team initiative) for these (M-198 155mm/T)

[DocSavage]

10. 106 MM Recoililess

I was a Corpsman with a Marine Weapons Platoon back in the late 70's. Those 106's with 50 cal spoting rounds were a ball to shoot.

[happyslug]

17. Stryker Concept is Nuts.

The whole concept of Wheeled Vehicles is faster movement across roads (as opposed to true cross country movement by tracked vehicles). You never go beyond the range of your own artillery and 155mm Guns are not easy to dig in (this was the reason the 105mm Howitzers was kept for years in Infantry Divisions, a 105 mm can be "Marched Ordered" in Two Minutes, you can NOT do that with a 155mm).

I can see replacing the M109, it can not keep up with Wheeled Vehicles, but with a TOWED 155mm??? Why not adopt the South African or Czech 155 WHEELED artillery piece? With just some minor modification (For example take the aiming system off the M109 Paladin and put it into the Wheeled piece) you could have a gun that could keep up with a rapid movement of wheeled infantry vehicles.

The more I hear of the Stryker concept, the less I like it. Why not go back to leg Infantry and save the money used to buy the Stryker Vehicles. People on Foot can be move even quicker by Plane than the Stryker Vehicles and since the Artillery is trucked pulled anyway leg infantry is not the much weaker or slower.

[OpelGT]

11. My Biggest

Mine was the AT4. If memory serves, the real designation was M136, but it got labeled AT4 due to the 84mm rocket the tube carried. Very loud....at both ends!

The most fun was the Mk19 grenade launcher. 40mm belt fed bundle of fun.

[leanings]

15. TOW count?

Not exactly a gun. I did get to hit a junk bulldozer from 2700 meters away with one, tho. That was one of the highlights of my life thus far. :)