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FM 6-40, Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Field Artillery Manual Cannon Gunnery (23 April 1996), Chapter 3 - Ballistics; Marine Corps Warfighting Publication No. 3-1.6.19 FM 23-91 , Mortar Gunnery (1 March 2000), Chapter 2 Fundamentals of Mortar Gunnery [5]
General Arnold on 29 June 1943 noted the "serious lack of proper aircraft and equipment to support the training", [1]: 20 and early gunnery training had used guntruck platforms with guns mounted on the beds of pickup trucks, e.g., for firing at clay targets (guntrucks at Las Vegas AAF were only used January & February 1942.) [7] In-flight ...
The 81 mm mortar shells used an adapter collar to allow 60 mm mortar shell fuzes to fit. Originally packed in wooden crates, the late war shells (1944–1945) were packed in metal M140 canisters. The M140 canister carried live shells in a four-chambered internal divider, had a horsehair pad in the inside of the lid to cushion the fuzes, and had ...
Ordnance crest "WHAT'S IN A NAME" - military education about SNL. This is a historic (index) list of United States Army weapons and materiel, by their Standard Nomenclature List (SNL) group and individual designations — an alpha-numeric nomenclature system used in the United States Army Ordnance Corps Supply Catalogues used from about 1930 to about 1958.
Fairchild AT-21 Gunner advanced/gunnery trainer; Fairchild PT-19/23/23 primary trainer; Federal AT-20 - Ansons purchased for Lend-Lease as bomber trainer; Fisher XP-75 Eagle prototype fighter; Fleetwings BT-12 basic trainer; Howard UC-70 Nightingale liaison aircraft; Interstate L-6 Grasshopper observation/liaison aircraft; Lockheed UC-101 Vega ...
It's all part of an aerial gunnery training exercise for the AC-130J Ghostrider at Camp Atterbury, ... The training is tentatively scheduled between 1200-1800 hours (that's noon to 6 p.m. for you ...
Kingman Airport was built as a World War II United States Army Air Forces training field. Between 1942 and 1945 the U.S. Army Air Forces acquired about 4,145 acres in Mohave County outside of Kingman, Arizona and established the Kingman Army Airfield and Kingman Aerial Gunnery School training facilities in 1942.
The Griffon Aerospace MQM-170 Outlaw is an unmanned aerial vehicle which is used to support air defense artillery training, research, development, and test activities. It can serve as a target drone, surrogate training platform, or in a surrogate aerial reconnaissance and forward observation role. The aircraft has been in use since 2004. [1]