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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 ...
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 ...
In early 1960s, the Grayling Air-to-Ground Gunnery Range Negotiations began and early during the decade the range was constructed on 1,900 acres near Grayling, Michigan. Soon after, aircraft could be seen using the site to fly sorties for aircraft gunnery and bombing exercises. This added asset increased the usage and value of the base immensely.
The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) issued a specification for a specialized bomber trainer, ordering two prototypes from Fairchild Aircraft.The XAT-13 powered by two 450 hp (340 kW) Pratt & Whitney R-1340-AN-1 radial engines, emerged as a "scaled down" bomber with a single machine gun in the glazed nose and a top turret with twin machine guns and fitted with tricycle landing gear. [2]
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 ...
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]
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 ...