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FIRE MISSION!! Top Ten Artillery Pieces for the Serious Redleg

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FIRE MISSION!! Top Ten Artillery Pieces for the Serious Redleg
Posted by Hans von Hammer on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 5:20 PM

I'm biased, but these are mine..

1: M109A3 155mm SP

2: M101A1 105mm Towed

3: M102 105mm Towed

4: M114A1 155mm Towed

5: M110A1 8-inch SP

6: M7 Priest 105mm SP

7:M40 155mm SP

8: M12 155mm SP

9: M107 175mm SP

10: M65  "Atomic Annie" 280mm Towed 

(All towed howitzers with prime movers)

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Posted by Rob Gronovius on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:09 PM

Although not a fan of WW2 German stuff, they have some nice kits of both towed and SP artillery.

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Posted by redleg12 on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 6:45 PM

Hummm....I guess I should say something here!!

OK....a bit different than above

1. M289 Launcher with Honest John

2. M7 Priest 105mm SP

3. M198 155mm Towed Howitzer

4. M767 Launcher with Pershing 1A missile

5. M115 8 inch Towed Howitzer

6. M107 175mm SP gun

7. M102 105mm Howitzer

8. M119 105mm Towed Howitzer

9.M40 155mm SP gun

10. M65 " Atomic Annie"

 

For information, if you are trying to see what is available

US Towed

http://www.redleg2scale.com/RBMI%20Info/Towed%20kits.html

US Self Propelled

http://www.redleg2scale.com/RBMI%20Info/SP%20kits.html

US Missile Artillery

http://www.redleg2scale.com/RBMI%20Info/Missile%20kits.html

Rounds Complete!!

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Posted by buff on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 7:43 PM

I'm not a serious redleg, so I'm way out of my league here, but I think a 25 pounder would have to be on a lot of people's list.  I think an 88 has its place on the list too.

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 7:51 PM

Technically, the 88 isn't field artillery...  It's a direct-fire weapon, Anti-aircraft, Anti-tank gun...

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Posted by wbill76 on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 7:53 PM

Definitely think you should add some German and Soviet gear to any Top Ten list in paying homage to WW2 such as:

8.8cm Flak 18/36/37

10.5cm leFH18 (the workhorse artillery piece of the German army in WW2)

15cm sFH18

76.2 Soviet artillery piece (not sure on the designation) but the Soviets would line them up hub to hub and just saturate the heck out of their targets.

Nebelwerfer

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:02 PM

Never said anything about WW2, Bill..  This's strictly Redleg-Candy, all eras... Indirect-fire only...

And again.. The 88 isn't FA...  It's Anti-Aircaft Artillery turned Anti-tank gun...  In the US Army, ADA (Air Defense Artillery) is a different branch than FA..

(The rocket artillery that Redleg listed counts since those guy wore crossed cannons too.. I guess we had to let 'em...)

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Posted by buff on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:06 PM

Hans von Hammer

Technically, the 88 isn't field artillery...  It's a direct-fire weapon, Anti-aircraft, Anti-tank gun...

Technically, you didn't specify field artillery!  Unless that's implied by the term redleg.  I told you I was out of my depth.Big SmileBig Smile

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Posted by redleg12 on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 8:09 PM

wbill76

Definitely think you should add some German and Soviet gear to any Top Ten list in paying homage to WW2 such as:

8.8cm Flak 18/36/37

10.5cm leFH18 (the workhorse artillery piece of the German army in WW2)

15cm sFH18

76.2 Soviet artillery piece (not sure on the designation) but the Soviets would line them up hub to hub and just saturate the heck out of their targets.

Nebelwerfer

Now Hans was just blowing the artillery horn from any era not just WWII

IF (and Ido say if) I was to contemplate something other than US (which would be like Bill building a Hummer Wink )

I will add to Bill's list

British 25 pounder

Soviet 208mm howitzer

Leopold Rail Gun

Soviet Scud Missile

Panzerhaubitze 2000

British AS-90

Korean K-9

Soviet 122mm SP

Rounds Complete!!

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 9:10 PM

buff

 Hans von Hammer:

Technically, the 88 isn't field artillery...  It's a direct-fire weapon, Anti-aircraft, Anti-tank gun...

 

Technically, you didn't specify field artillery!  Unless that's implied by the term redleg.  I told you I was out of my depth.Big SmileBig Smile

No sweat... Sometimes I forget that not everyone here has been in the military or is fluent in the jargon...

  But yeah, Field Artillery is implied with the term, "Redleg"...

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Posted by RESlusher on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 9:12 PM

1.  M270 MLRS

2.  Soviet BM-21 Grad  (Grid Square Taker Outer)

3.  M667 Lance Missile System

4.  M109A6

5.  Soviet 2S1  152mm SParty

6.  Chinese Type 89 MRL

7.  Soviet Scud-B

8.  M777 Towed Piece

9.  16" Naval Rifles from any Iowa Class Battle-Wagon

10.  M767 Launcher w/ Pershing missile

 

 

Richard S.

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Posted by bondoman on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 10:51 PM

M116 Howitzer. I always thought the thing was just good looking.

1857 Napoleon 12 pounder. There's a number of nice multi-media kits around. We had a nice big brass model of one when I was a kid.

M40 GMC. More about that in the Veterans GB.

 

Do any of you all get interested in super guns?

I love the things.

Gerald Bull was a crazy genius, an "anti" hero of mine. Project HARP and Project Babylon were two that were really big ideas.

My friend George collects and shoots naval signal cannons, esp. the kinds used to toss lines etc. But that's wet stuff.

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Posted by Shellback on Wednesday, December 14, 2011 11:50 PM

Atomic Annnie , is there a kit of that ?

I know your not counting Navy Gun Fire Support here , but heres a few pics from off the coast of Nam ,  6"/47 triple gun turret and 5"/38 twin gun mount.........just sayin .

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Posted by tigerman on Thursday, December 15, 2011 1:47 AM

Dora and it's 80cm muzzle!

Big Bertha from World War I

Soviet 122mm and 152mm guns

Would the German Morsers such as Thor count?

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Posted by gunner_chris on Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:59 AM

Certainly need the 25 pounder on there.

M777 though there is no kit for it.

M109 and M101 (C1/C3 above the 49th).

M115 8"

Theres been some debate about it but probably 81mm mortar.  Indirect fire, and can spit out quite a few rounds in close proximity.

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Thursday, December 15, 2011 6:00 AM

Atomic Annnie , is there a kit of that ?

Sure is..

http://www.revell.com/model-kits/military/85-7811.html

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Thursday, December 15, 2011 6:03 AM

Theres been some debate about it but probably 81mm mortar.  Indirect fire, and can spit out quite a few rounds in close proximity.

No debate.. Mortars are not field artillery pieces...  They're Infantry weapons...

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Thursday, December 15, 2011 6:20 AM

Dunno 100% about the Karl-Morser...  But, technically, it's a howitzer...

Here's the US Army definition of FA, FM 3-09- Fire Support

 

 

 

1-13.

Field artillery is the equipment, supplies, ammuntion, and personel involved in the delivery of indirect fires from cannon, rocket,or surface-to-surface missile launchers. Field Artillery Cannons areclassified according to calber as:

 

 

 

Light — 120-mm and less.

 

Medium — 121 to 160-mm.

 

Heavy — 161 to 210-mm.

 

Very heavy — greater than 210-mm .

 

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Posted by MECHTECH on Thursday, December 15, 2011 11:21 AM

I seriously think that you guys all love things that when you pull a sting, something goes BOOM! Your childhoods must have all included some toy that you pullled around the house. ROFLAO!

While growing up my home was maybe three miles as the crow flies away from the gun Pad for CFB Gagetown. Many the night I can remember going to bed with the windows shaking and flashes on the horizon. NOW YOU'VE DONE IT, YOU MADE ME HOMESICK!

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Posted by Hans von Hammer on Thursday, December 15, 2011 11:51 AM

I had a "Mighty Mo" howitzer as a kid... It looked like an M114, right down to the unpainted tube... It had a shell-cannister with a spring in it,  that you'd load this plastic cannon-ball that was about 2/3rds the size of a tennis ball into, shove it into the breech, then.... PSGGB!*

Broke a couple barn windows with that gun, lol...   Then, a couple days after I got it,  the shell-cannister and cannon-balls mysteriously disappeared, never saw them again....

 

 

* For you non-Redlegs, PSGGB means, "Pull String Gun Go Boom"...

 

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Posted by Shellback on Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:43 PM

Thanks for the link Hans .Yes

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Posted by telsono on Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:56 PM

My list would be more to historic importance during WWII

1) The French 75mm field gun -  introduced in 1897, the US standard in WWI, but used even after WWII. The Poles used it and it claimed many German tanks in an anti-tank role. The captured ones were used by the Germans as the 7.5 cm PAK 97/38(f). With lend lease the British bought 600 from the US.

2) The Russian 76.2 field gun M1936 (F22) - One of the main Russian divisional pieces prior to WWII. these were captured in gfreat numbers and were used by the Germans in various uses especially on Marders as anti-tank guns (7.62 cm PAK 36(r)

3) The Austrian Skoda 10 cm/50 K10, K11 was a standard artillery piece for the Austrians in WWI, it was given to Italy (100mm/37 Models 1924, 1927 and 1928) as war booty and was used by the Russians and the Poles. It was a standard divisional piece for the Italians in WWII.

4) The German 10.5 cm leFH 18, the divisional standard piece in WWII 

5) The Nebelwerfer series of rocket artillery used by the Germans in WWII, commonly called the Screaming Meemies by US troops.

6) The US 105mm M1 or M2 Howitzer, the US strandard divisonal howitzer

7) The M7 Priest HMC, built upon the M3 chassis, it brought mobility to US armored divisions artillery units in WWII. Many times it would just stop and shoot, not needing to put a spade down to fire. Rated at 4 rounds per minutes, but could be fast fired at 10 rounds per minutes. The higher rate burnt out the tubes faster as well due the extra heat build up.

8) The Wespe, The German mating of a PzII chasis with the standard 10.5 cm leFH,

9) The US M12, again using the M3 chassis, but here the WWI 150mm gun was used.

10) Anything that Major Becker of the 21st Panzer division got his hands on. He mobilized many types of artillery pieces especially 75mm and 105mm pieces

Mike T.

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Posted by gunner_chris on Thursday, December 15, 2011 2:27 PM

Hans von Hammer

 

 

Theres been some debate about it but probably 81mm mortar.  Indirect fire, and can spit out quite a few rounds in close proximity.

 

No debate.. Mortars are not field artillery pieces...  They're Infantry weapons...

You may have to tell that to those who gave us mortars then.

I personally don't mind them, but I prefer a howitzer any day.

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Posted by Mikeym_us on Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:23 PM

Hans von Hammer

Theres been some debate about it but probably 81mm mortar.  Indirect fire, and can spit out quite a few rounds in close proximity.

No debate.. Mortars are not field artillery pieces...  They're Infantry weapons...

Except when a typical mortar squad is around the same number as a howitzer crew.

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Posted by redleg12 on Thursday, December 15, 2011 7:20 PM

Hans von Hammer

I had a "Mighty Mo" howitzer as a kid... It looked like an M114, right down to the unpainted tube... It had a shell-cannister with a spring in it,  that you'd load this plastic cannon-ball that was about 2/3rds the size of a tennis ball into, shove it into the breech, then.... PSGGB!*

Broke a couple barn windows with that gun, lol...   Then, a couple days after I got it,  the shell-cannister and cannon-balls mysteriously disappeared, never saw them again....

 

 

* For you non-Redlegs, PSGGB means, "Pull String Gun Go Boom"...

 

Essentially...Ditto.....go figure

As for pulling the string....don't knock it until you have tried it.....

I need an air freshener that smells like muzzle blast or what the Redlegs call Wolfs Pu$$y. Now that would be a neat xmas present and be great in the studio!!

Rounds Complete!!

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