Artillery 13B KING of battle. - Page 1

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Posted: 2/24/2010 10:25:20 AM EDT

Thought this would be fun since theres a queen of battle thread going on.

I dont want to go too heavy on the pic's or my photo bucket account will take a shit.

M198 155mm howitzer, charge 8 super HERAP (these pics were PRE MACS charge)

M119 105mm Howitzer charge 8 HERAP (charge 8 is a solid charge no more 7 tea bags.)

I spent a month here getting attacked.

Hip shoot on the road

These are the new Titanium M777 155mm Howitzers you can see the new plastic MACS charges in the pics

Posted: 2/24/2010 10:27:04 AM EDT

[#1]

Very cool

Posted: 2/24/2010 10:29:12 AM EDT

[#2]

I don't think it'll fit on my lower.

Posted: 2/24/2010 2:53:41 PM EDT

[#3]

I woulden't want to pay for the ammo.

Posted: 2/24/2010 2:56:55 PM EDT

[#4]

No THAT'S the gun they used in the movie Heat !

Posted: 2/24/2010 2:58:27 PM EDT

[#5]

Don't you mean "MACS" instead of max????

Very cool btw

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:01:47 PM EDT

[#6]

No love for self propelled?

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:02:24 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Don't you mean "MACS" instead of max????

Very cool btw

I havent handled the macs charges in over a year. I diden't remember the spelling.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:02:58 PM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
No love for self propelled?

hell no, medium towed only!

we were a light unit.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:04:02 PM EDT

[#9]

13B here !, 105 towed, (Oooold ILARNG guns with the shields !), then I went and switched to 14B

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:04:04 PM EDT

[#10]

I use to survey you guys in.

<–––––––– 82C

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:04:45 PM EDT

[#11]

Drive on, Gun bunny!

<–––– Former 13M

I honestly thought you guys would all be phased out and working MLRS Ammo platoons by the late 90s. Obviously, I had no idea what I was talking about. Those new Howitzers look awesome!

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:05:32 PM EDT

[#12]

Thanks for your service and the show and tell.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:08:11 PM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
I woulden't want to pay for the ammo.

It's actually only a few hundred dollars per round.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:09:57 PM EDT

[#14]

MLRS checking in. Steel Rain for the win.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:11:07 PM EDT

[#15]

I've done my time on towed. This is my ride nowadays.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:20:56 PM EDT

[#16]

Thread hijack!

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:24:33 PM EDT

[#17]

I wonder how many green bag and white bag charges are still out there. We've been shooting the MACS charges lately. And us in the National Guard are usually last to get on to the new stuff.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:25:15 PM EDT

[#18]

Thanks for your service and the awesome pics!

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:25:21 PM EDT

[#19]

I'd love to see the craters those things make.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:28:35 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
I wonder how many green bag and white bag charges are still out there. We've been shooting the MACS charges lately. And us in the National Guard are usually last to get on to the new stuff.

There's probably still a lot but I haven't used any in the last 4 years its been mostly white bag, but recently its been a lot of Hotel MAC's and Lima MAC's.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:32:09 PM EDT

[#21]

Former 0311 - Former 0861- Former 11B - Former 96B here.

I've called a little 155 in my day.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:36:20 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:
I've done my time on towed. This is my ride nowadays.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss75/yellowhammer71/M109.jpg

Wasn't the M-109A6 PIM just rolled out about a month ago? Does your unit already have them?

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:37:50 PM EDT

[#23]

I could sure go for some wolf pussy right about now.

- Field Artillery, 1997 to present.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:42:46 PM EDT

[#24]

Fuck Fort Sill.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:45:13 PM EDT

[#25]

Old 13B here. I was always 8" SP, M110A2. First at Ft. Hood, and then in Werthiem.
50 pounds of blackpowder (charge 5, White bag) without flash suppressors leaves an impression in your mind you never, ever forget.

Shot Out Bitch's.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:46:51 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
Fuck Fort Sill.

LOL, if you arent in basic it probably aint that bad. I've never been back there.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:49:54 PM EDT

[#27]

Just got my MOS. 0802.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:53:04 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Fuck Fort Sill.

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:57:17 PM EDT

[#29]

Awesome! I was an 0844 (FDC) in the Marines (1981-1987). My first 4 years were with an 8" unit. BOOM baby!

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:58:28 PM EDT

[#30]

Thank you for your support of 11B

Posted: 2/24/2010 3:59:22 PM EDT

[#31]

Awesome pics!

Thanks for serving

Posted: 2/24/2010 4:00:43 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

Fuck Fort Sill.

Fuck Lawton

Posted: 2/24/2010 4:01:10 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I woulden't want to pay for the ammo.

It's actually only a few hundred dollars per round.

About 108 per 155 projectile.

Posted: 2/24/2010 4:02:26 PM EDT

[#34]

Who else here has shot killer junior with a 1 second fuse

I did but only once.

Posted: 2/24/2010 4:03:08 PM EDT

[#35]

I think our Arfmember, who can deliver packages in 30 min or less, is the King of Battle.

Maybe the God of Battle

Posted: 2/24/2010 4:05:57 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
Who else here has shot killer junior with a 1 second fuse

I did but only once.

A crew in my battalion had a round burst right out of the muzzle. They all survived. The cannon did not.

Posted: 2/24/2010 4:11:16 PM EDT

[#37]

Quoted:

Quoted:
I've done my time on towed. This is my ride nowadays.
http://i563.photobucket.com/albums/ss75/yellowhammer71/M109.jpg

Wasn't the M-109A6 PIM just rolled out about a month ago? Does your unit already have them?

Hell no. I just pulled up a Paladin image to post. We're still in the one's we've been in since late 90's. We did have the AFCS's updated, but ours aren't nearly as pretty as that one.

Posted: 2/24/2010 4:15:47 PM EDT

[#38]

they call the infantry the queen of battle, guess that makes the inf the artillery's bitch

Posted: 2/24/2010 4:16:15 PM EDT

[#39]

Cool Pics

Not bad for a bunch of cannon cockers

Posted: 2/24/2010 4:18:07 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
they call the infantry the queen of battle, guess that makes the inf the artillery's bitch

Someone has to help the FISTers get around.

Posted: 2/24/2010 4:55:39 PM EDT

[#41]

I would like too see the craters they make in the taliban

Posted: 2/24/2010 5:15:43 PM EDT

[#42]

Former Fire Support Officer, Fire Direction Officer, and Battery XO for towed 105's (M101). Fire Support was the best, calls for fire and CAS!! Artillery one of the best all-around areas for knowing what eveyone else is doing.

Cool pictures.

Posted: 2/24/2010 5:31:20 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:

Quoted:
they call the infantry the queen of battle, guess that makes the inf the artillery's bitch

Someone has to help the FISTers get around.

yup. we just hang out until somebody needs something blowed up. fisters keep the pimp hand strong.

155 & 120 on tap, air by special request. 05-06 in al anbar.

what i wouldnt give to still be able to do that job. best time of my life.

Posted: 2/24/2010 5:41:23 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
Don't you mean "MACS" instead of max????

Very cool btw

Modular Artillery Charge System (MACS)

M231 and M232

Posted: 2/24/2010 5:43:12 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
Fuck Fort Sill.

Fort Sill is the black hole of washed up artillerymen.

There are just enough good people hanging around that post to keep the unit functioning, but the rest of it-

.

Posted: 2/24/2010 5:51:33 PM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Fuck Fort Sill.

Fort Sill is the black hole of washed up artillerymen.

There are just enough good people hanging around that post to keep the unit functioning, but the rest of it-

.

I'm glad to hear that it's better on the outside.

I was worried.

Posted: 2/24/2010 5:56:23 PM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Fuck Fort Sill.

Fort Sill is the black hole of washed up artillerymen.

There are just enough good people hanging around that post to keep the unit functioning, but the rest of it-

.

I'm glad to hear that it's better on the outside.

I was worried.

Don't tell me your stationed there?

You poor bastard.

Posted: 2/24/2010 6:01:48 PM EDT

[#48]

Forgive me for knowing absolutely zero about artillery rounds - but how much of that round actually gets fired through the barrel? I assume that since it's 155mm the projective is about 6" in diameter, which leads me to believe it's "just the tip"?

Posted: 2/24/2010 6:04:30 PM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:
Forgive me for knowing absolutely zero about artillery rounds - but how much of that round actually gets fired through the barrel? I assume that since it's 155mm the projective is about 6" in diameter, which leads me to believe it's "just the tip"?

Not sure what you're asking...If you look up to colonelklink's post with the picture that has D505 on it? That is a 155mm illum round––the whole thing goes downrange.

Posted: 2/24/2010 6:05:38 PM EDT

[#50]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Forgive me for knowing absolutely zero about artillery rounds - but how much of that round actually gets fired through the barrel? I assume that since it's 155mm the projective is about 6" in diameter, which leads me to believe it's "just the tip"?

Not sure what you're asking...If you look up to colonelklink's post with the picture that has D505 on it? That is a 155mm illum round––the whole thing goes downrange.

Hrm...I guess that just looked bigger than 6" in diameter to me. Cool!

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