Howo not to tow a Canon/Gun
 

Browsing the web i came across this accident Oeps where is Car Glass

Please mark the barrel end of you gun properly please, I don't fancy to be next to have a metal pole stick through the windscreen.

http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/attachment...534155&thumb=1

Peter
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Break and Enter - Gunner Style
 

I am sure that every urban based artillery unit has experienced this event - despite having proper reflective markings on the muzzle.

Too many idiots drive too close. I have no sympathy for tailgaters and it looks like this moron got what they deserve.

David

Happened to somebody in our club
 

Hi All

This same thing Happened to somebody in our MV club in at McDonald's drive in window. He was towing a small Anti-tank gun behind his jeep the teenage girl drove in to broke the stop light unit hanging on the muzzle, lit, and put a crease up her hood.

There is a wonderful bit in the New Zealand War Dairies describing how the convoy drivers hated to fallow a gun in a night convoy. Because you didn't see it until it was coming through the windscreen.

Cheers Phil

In the photo of the Canadian 105 howitzer, how come the light assembly is half way up the barrel? Or is that where they ended up when the original M2a2 barrels were swapped over to the C3 configuration?

Note that now the Cdn army has dispensed with the barrel mounted lights altogether and are now mounting the tail lamps directly onto the lower area of the shields. Not sure if the lights being down there will help or make the problem worse, drawing the eyes away from the muzzle.

oops
 

I wonder where the driver's cell phone was after all this.

Close one!
 

Speaking of night time operations reminds me of a story told to me by a fellow that had taken part in a night exercise on Puckapunyal with U/Cs and towed ordnance many years before. It was very dark and the carrier crew were sitting up high for maximum visibility and still couldn't see anything. The driver thought it best to stop as he sensed there was something in front of them and as he did so he heard the fellow beside him exhale. What had happened was the flash cone on the muzzle of a gun had pinned the guy to the bulkhead behind him like a big cookie cutter. By pure chance they had just stopped before any harm was done.

David