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When firing armor-piercing projectiles, their muzzle velocity was 2,500 feet per second (760 m/s) with a range of up to 24 mi (39 km). At maximum range the projectile spent almost 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 minutes in flight. Each turret required a crew of 79 men to operate. The turrets cost US$1.4 million each, excluding the cost of the guns. [1]
A range table was a list of angles of elevation a particular artillery gun barrel needed to be set to, to strike a target at a particular distance with a projectile of a particular weight using a propellant cartridge of a particular weight.
M712 Copperhead approaches an old M47 Patton tank used as a target M712 detonating. The M712 Copperhead is a 155 mm caliber cannon-launched guided projectile.It is a fin-stabilized, terminally laser guided, explosive shell intended to engage hard point targets such as tanks, self-propelled howitzers or other high-value targets.
Artillery has been one of primary weapons of war since before the Napoleonic Era. Several countries have developed and built artillery systems, while artillery itself has been continually improved and redesigned to meet the evolving needs of the battlefield. This has led to a multitude of different types and designs which have played a role in ...
XM1113 extended range artillery round, shown here at a range demonstration, uses a rocket-assist motor. The U.S. Army is developing the XM1113 rocket-assisted projectile to replace the M549A1 shell. The XM1113 increases range from 30 to 40 km (19 to 25 mi) from a 39-caliber barrel using a large high-performance rocket motor delivering nearly ...
An 8-inch US Army field gun in action during the bombardment of Brest.. In 1919, the Westervelt Board, named for its president, Brigadier General William I. Westervelt, described the ideal heavy gun for future development having a bore of 194 mm to 8 inches, a projectile of about 200 lbs in weight, and a range of 35,000 yards.
The US has been sending Ukraine M982 Excalibur shells, which have GPS guidance and a 25-mile range. While Excalibur and other precision-guided artillery rounds are highly accurate, they aren't cheap.
This list of artillery catalogues types of weapons found in batteries of national armed forces' artillery units.. Some weapons used by the infantry units, known as infantry support weapons, are often misidentified as artillery weapons because of their use and performance characteristics, sometimes known colloquially as the "infantryman's artillery" [1] which has been particularly applied to ...