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31-03-09, 00:30
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155mm against tanks
Hi Andrew:
The problem with the mud packed wheels may well have resulted in reducing the paired sets to one each but it would have put the tyres way over their safe load limits and I suspect that the gun would have sunk even more deeply due to the weight on much less surface area. Nonethless, I have seen odder things done and, as your Dad said, always believe his war stories!  I have used the modern M109A2 in the anti-tank role and there is a reason why there is no anti-tank ammo made for it... we fire straight High Explosive (HE) with a super-quick fuze and the mess it makes of a 52 ton Centurion leads me to believe that there was little left of the much lighter built 15 ton Japanese tanks after being struck by the 155mm round! I have watched five ton turrets flip up in the air when hit by the 155mm. I suspect that the Japanese simply drove over what little there was left of their previous tank(s) in that V shaped valley!   Mike 
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31-03-09, 02:45
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Mike, I've been out of the loop for almost a decade now with what the CF uses by way of SPG's...and correct me if I'm wrong, isn't the Canadian M109 the A4 model? And do we still have them on strength? I remember reading about the Copperhead round for the 155 some years back and was amazed at it's capabilities...did Canada ever deploy the Copperhead round or a similar smart round? Derek.
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31-03-09, 03:30
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M109a4+
Hi Derek:
The most current mmbers of that family are the M109A4 overhauled in the USofA and the M109A4+ overhauled in Holland. The spotting diffrence is the Leopard style smoke grenade dischargers on the A4+. Currently they are sitting in mothballs as we debate our future artillery systems. Canada was the first nation to field the M777 in battle and we now have some 24 of them. The advances in projectile technology are staggering and the Gunners in the sandbox have some esoteric stuff available to them. Opsec!  Ubique! Mike
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