Ugly Brute, but tough at a titanium tin bath. Oh and I've seen it fire live on a range over the east coast of the UK. What a sound! What firepower.ryokan wrote:A-10 Thunderbolt II ("Warthog")
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I like the A-10. You want ugly aircraft, I'll start a thread sometime ... 
The "Long Tom" 155 mm Howitzer:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... _Tom_2.jpg[/imgc]
Much bigger image here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... _Tom_2.jpg
The M40 SPG:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... _M40_2.JPG[/imgc]
The "Long Tom" 155 mm Howitzer:
Much bigger image here: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... _Tom_2.jpg
The M40 SPG:
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Ugly aircraft... yeah I'd like that thread. What was the one that looked like a bumble bee....???
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I'm not sure, but I'll start the thread in a few minutes, and I'm sure it will turn up at some point. :hum:AshtonBlack wrote:Ugly aircraft... yeah I'd like that thread. What was the one that looked like a bumble bee....???
The 17-Pounder Anti-Tank gun:
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The Warthogs gun in action on a static test bench.
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The same weapon in it's navel guise as part of the Goalkeeper Close In Weapons System (CIWS).
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Phalanx. Awesome bit of kit. The land based version is used to take out rockets and mortars. It works (most of the time... hehe)
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The instantly recognisable Oto Melara (now Otobreda) 76 mm naval gun, very widely used:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... chuetz.jpg[/imgc]
... I have some good pics of this myself, as it's used on a couple of Irish vessels.
... I have some good pics of this myself, as it's used on a couple of Irish vessels.
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R2D2! Uranium hoser! :twisted:AshtonBlack wrote:
Phalanx. Awesome bit of kit. The land based version is used to take out rockets and mortars. It works (most of the time... hehe)
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AshtonBlack wrote:Ugly aircraft... yeah I'd like that thread. What was the one that looked like a bumble bee....???
The GeeBee?
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This weapon system is installed on the USS Freedom.
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In-fucking-credible. I feel so inadequate:CJ wrote:The Warthogs gun in action on a static test bench.
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That 57 mm naval gun is meant to be a direct competitor to the OTO 76 mm gun ... or so the manufacturers would want you to believe. :hum:
The M1128 Stryker Mobile Gun System, using a license-built version of the evergreen (and wildly successful) Royal Ordnance L7 105 mm gun:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ ... 094248.jpg[/imgc]
The M1128 Stryker Mobile Gun System, using a license-built version of the evergreen (and wildly successful) Royal Ordnance L7 105 mm gun:
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