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[meles meles]

Apparently charge 4 on a charge 1 gun position!

Forgive my ignorance but what does that mean? sign85

In short, the baboons' arses* screwed up. It involved things like counting and big numbers so that is hardly surprising. In simple terms, someone probably put 4 bags of gunpowder in when they should have used 1.








* What's the difference between a baboon's arse and red beret?
No, no-one else has worked it out either.

[Maggot]

Apparently charge 4 on a charge 1 gun position!

The culprits are apparently 7th Para.

"cough"......are you there Rearlugs??

That makes sense cos from memory the last I heard 7RHA had light guns and that dont look much like an AS90 hole to me.

Its not a proper hole unless you can park a mini in it!!

I know you can never say never but again, thinking back (and I was never a steamie, I was a SAM operator before I defected to the AAC) the light gun was more mandraulic than the AS90, so I guess it makes more sense that a swinger would come from a light gun.....unless the AS had a sulk on.

I guess the OP Ack had his log impounded then.

I remember the consternation when the FH70 came in and they had to shoot well out of the area into the impact area.

Sleepy Wiltshire probably needed waking up anyway :55:

[Maggot]

PS

The bloody BBC still cant find their arses without a map.

Off piste I know but if I see "new" again (as some sort or endorsement for whatever it is the tossers are spending my license fee on) I will hire a muck spreader and deliver to the nearest studio tesnews

Still, I suppose its easier than putting "Repeat" on for near enough every thing they show these days.

What really bugs me is that they filmed only fools and horses (and many other classics) with my license fees, but did not consult with me (or any other license payer) before they flogged it (and many others that I would not mind seeing again) to UK Gold etc for which I would have to pay.

Is that not a form of theft.... tesnews tesnews tesnews

[meles meles]

Still, I suppose its easier than putting "Repeat" on for near enough every thing they show these days.

No, Maggot, NO ! You should know better than to say the R word on a thread about artillery !!!

*Scurries for cover*

[Strangely Brown]

Apparently charge 4 on a charge 1 gun position!

The culprits are apparently 7th Para.

"cough"......are you there Rearlugs??

I remember the consternation when the FH70 came in and they had to shoot well out of the area into the impact area.

I was on the gun detachment that fired the American M107 (175mm SP) on charge 3 (Max charge) for the first time in the UK. The gun position was on Bulford ranges and the target was on Warminster ranges, IIRC near Imber village.
We had to wait while the RMP's closed all the roads between gun and target. We also "proofed" an M107 on the same day, this was done by firing the gun with a 200 ft length of Don-10 telephone cable from a fire trench!

[saddler]

Has Major Fox stepped in to stop the drop shorts from dropping any more short?

Perhaps they need civilian controllers to do the complicated sums.
A couple of GCSE Maffs stoodents with a protractor, slide rule and some graph paper could draw up some charts as part of their final project...

FFS...it's not as if it was a stray burst from a GPMG that went off range.

But, as long as it was an army snafu then there's nothing to be concerned about.

Drop shorts is what drop shorts does...innit.

[Strangely Brown]

Rather than dropping short for a change, this one went a tad further than expected!

[Jackmanuk]

Apparently charge 4 on a charge 1 gun position!

Forgive my ignorance but what does that mean? sign85

to much power at wrong angle make it go to far

like using a driver when you need a putter

[Maggot]

Still, I suppose its easier than putting "Repeat" on for near enough every thing they show these days.

No, Maggot, NO ! You should know better than to say the R word on a thread about artillery !!!

*Scurries for cover*

Ahh....I ought to be "Shot over" for that comment oh humbug looking one

Although "In effect" all I was saying was that the BBC are as much use as a British VT fuze.

(The yanks designed a fuze that worked then spent 10 years trying to make is safe, the Brits designed a fuze that was safe...then spent 10 years trying to make it work...alegedly)

All I remember was ELXLE

Quick Elevation, Quick Line, cross level, true line, true elevation :lol:

And it wernt a handbrake, it was an LBM (lever breech mechanism).

Then I went onto blowpipe/javelin (very entertaining when they sulk).

Then I sold out and went to the petrol budgies....even more entertaining when the sulk...honest

I dont see the problem, it was one poxy shell that saved him a few hours with a spade.

Could have been a "Fire mission regiment" or more...now that would have stung a bit.

I was near a MLRS pair in Iraq in the first gulf punch up....chilling, really bloody chilling

[meles meles]

I was near a MLRS pair in Iraq in the first gulf punch up....chilling, really bloody chilling

Ah, the GSRC*







* the Grid Square Removal Company