Artillery battery spacing

we just got about 15 prisoners and more inbound, we'll have fun fun fun till the col. takes the ammo away!

You had better watch out Ex18B, a few more years, and you'll be wanting an MRE or two-as a snack, and your family will get after you to drop modelling-saying it is hazardous to your health...
or
maybe not
lol

Keep your head down around those fools Red Leg... RPG's are FUN aren't they?!? Especially when they are fired at YOU Keep safe and come home soon brother.

Tom

MREs make me sick.... literally. Hate 'em. Phew, yech, argh, gag, cack..... barf.

cough.


gag. (again)

choke.

ron.

Hey, Poniatowski, thanks, that I was just wondering if I ever was to do a dio of some artillery pieces in action-since in pics they are abnormally close to each other-the whole one shot bags em all theory is present.
Redleg, I have heard a thing or two about those MRE's, and they are testing a replacement-some sorta super sandwhich-it didn't sound to good from the review I read in stars and strips?
And next time they try comin after you,
nail 'em
I guess my summer at EUCOM HQ was a lot easier than it was for you.
THANK YOU THOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Up until the Paladin system, US artillery had to be laid by a soldier (chief of smoke or XO) at the aiming circle to the front of the battery. Spacing between pieces depended on terrain. Usually, this would be between ten to thirty yards or so, which is closer together than we usually are now with Paladins. That would mean a battery would be spread between sixty and one hundred and eighty yards total, with the aiming circle near center front, out around thirty or more yards. The further the battery was spaced, the more difficult it was to lay and direct.
Every gun in the battery (six of 'em) had to be able to see the aiming circle and often a safety circle. The aiming circle looks more like a surveyor's instrument than anything else and is on the same type of tripod. They're still used in degraded ops by arty batteries.

Hope that helps.

Ron

we provide fire support for our task force and those of us that are on our ammo carrier got stuck doing force protection jobs for the time being.

but other than that we try to eat, due to the confusion with who's getting chow we usually get one hot meal a day if they don't run out before you get to eat ( if you don't get hot chow for whatever meal they bring then it's the MRE's{ i've eaten to many MRE's lately!})
we sometimes get a lil' down time but those of us on guard duty have set schedules so we can have a lil' more computer time or sleep or whatever you wanna do time.
we have to wear flak vests around everywhere unless you're under the roof of the main building on our FOB ( i try not to leave it ) and our Fob is pretty small so there really isn't anywhere to go anyway?
we get attacked once in a while, they try to mortar us but we usually return fire with our infantries mortars or our howitzers ( paladins ), they've also tried to RPG us but they can't really hit anything? the most effective thing they use is the ied's improvised explosive devices or bombs on the side of the road hidden in anything.
that's pretty much our lifestyle here and our only worries to an extent?

Ok, thanks!, so Redleg, what exactely do you do over there? My dad was reserve that was activated-hes off now-and he was in Germany for intell, but what are you doing?

well we're in iraq now and we just fired some rounds but i had to watch from a guard tower ( sadly) we're about 50 meters if that apart ( we're just a platoon attatched for fire support though. our catv's are kinda bihind our guns as well close but seperate.

I can't say exactly as I was armor not arty, but I'd think they'd be at least 100 meters apart just to avoid the "one airburst gets us all" theory. We've got a couple of active duty gun bunnies in the community and I'd guess they could give a much better answer than mine.

World war two, american or british, non-selfpropelled howitzers/field guns west front

Who's guns? What guns? What era?