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The 105 mm howitzer M102 is a lightweight towed weapon, which has a very low silhouette when in the firing position. The M102 howitzer fires a 33 lb (15 kg) projectile of semifixed ammunition and at charge 7 it will fire to 11.5 km (7.1 mi).
The first example was the 105mm howitzer M546 anti-personnel tracer (APERS-T), first fired in combat in 1966 [2] and thereafter used extensively in the Vietnam War. Intended for direct fire against enemy troops, the M546 was direct fired from a near horizontally leveled 105 mm howitzer [ 3 ] and ejected 8000 flechettes during flight by a ...
The M108 howitzer is an American self-propelled 105 mm howitzer, first introduced in the early 1960s as a replacement for the M52 self-propelled howitzer. [ 1 ] The M108 was powered by a Detroit Diesel turbocharged 8V-71T 8-cylinders 405 hp engine.
Fire support was provided by Batteries A and C, 2nd Battalion, 77th Artillery Regiment, placed their eleven 105-mm. howitzers in the south, five 155-mm. self-propelled howitzers of Battery A, 3rd Battalion, 13th Artillery Regiment in the north, a pair of M42 Dusters from Battery B, 5th Battalion, 2nd Artillery Regiment and a pair of quad ...
Bunkers and trench line on the perimeter of Mai Loc Camp, 16 October 1969 Soldier of the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, lays the foundation for a blastwall to protect an M102 105mm howitzer, 16 October 1969. Mai Loc was located approximately 8 km southwest of Ca Lu Combat Base and 25 km west of Quảng Trị. [1]
2/12 Marines firing their 105mm howitzer, Con Thien, 19 October 1967. Operation Cimarron began on 1 June in the same area with the same units. There was limited contact with the PAVN but many enemy bunkers and supply caches were found and destroyed and several PAVN graves located. Cimarron ended on 2 July.
The breech ring of the howitzer M2 was modified in March 1940 before large-scale production began, creating the 105 mm howitzer M2A1 on carriage M2. [ 1 ] In 1939, the new howitzer cost $25,000, which was three times more than a 75 mm field gun M1897 on M2 carriage , and its adoption required procurement of a colossal amount of new ammunition ...
Arriving in Vietnam as part of Australia's commitment to the Vietnam War in March 1968, replacing the 106th Field Battery and was equipped with the 105mm M2A2 Howitzer. [1] On the night of 12 May 1968, while at Fire Support Base Coral , a M2A2 howitzer was captured by North Vietnamese troops who temporarily overran part of the base, however the ...