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24-05-15, 01:17
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OK, Rob I think you can have your thread back now ....
 How was Normandy, and have you any other 17pdr (Aust) (Exp?) images, please? Mike 
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24-05-15, 16:26
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Mike and Lynn
Love the banter
 Love to get you two together to discuss Art or Music sometime! :happy:Now back to your Heavy Metal thread, Rob. David
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24-05-15, 21:51
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David, you would find that I knew about the same on art and music, that I know about artillery.
Yes, back to the Pheasant / Hybrid. Btw, I regularly feed the odd pheasant when I feed my deer. I think Pheasant was a very apt. name. The way they explode from the ground, scaring the (your choice of verb) out of us.
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25-05-15, 13:00
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Mike,
Internet access is a bit tricky where I am and I am sat in a Mc donalds at the moment. I have been researching the 17/25 pdr for quite a while now and have a good archive of pictures including many unseen or publicised so I don't post pictures unless they are already on the net such as the pictures you posted. With the Australian variant being trialled so late on in the war after the temporary British conversions had been dismantled could this be an attempt to create a lightweight 17pdr baring in mind it has a welded carriage it is quite plausible. Just visited the Suffolk regiment memorial at coleville Montgomery. Rob......... rnixartillery
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25-05-15, 19:44
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Can't say I've ever seen those two on the net, but then, I suppose I haven't looked that closely. They were a couple of examples from a private album I copied many years ago - an officer closely involved in Aust wartime artillery experiments & production.
Mike
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17-07-15, 12:59
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A couple of items fresh in today 17 pdr related, a complete pull back apparatus which needs cleaning up and a pair of ammo boxes which were dug up in Arnhem a couple of years ago ,sadly no more than relics both 44 dated and one has the faint remains of the markings. one of them might possibly clean up a little.
Rob..........................rnixartillery. Last edited by rnixartillery; 27-07-19 at 20:58.
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18-07-15, 18:35
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Great stuff Rob
How long is that steel/looped cable? Nice boxes. See pic. Cheers Rob Fast
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28-08-16, 10:54
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29-08-16, 03:25
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On a more serious note, the question of 25pdr AP versus 17 pdr ballistic performance is an interesting one. The crucial part as I understand it is that kinetic energy i.e. hitting power = Mass x Velocity squared. This means that if you double the mass you have doubled the energy but if you double the velocity, energy is vastly more than doubled.
This is the reason that small arms projectiles have reduced in size and weight over the years as propellants improved and muzzle velocities increased. David
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04-09-16, 19:14
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Very nice work Rob.
After blasting off some gunpowder at the castle yesterday we started talking about ordnance on site. One of the managers said she had gone through some old files this past week and found a letter about a gun. When I read it I immediately thought about this thread. Apparantly Dover Castle had a pheasant sitting here for a number of years. No one currently knows its fate so will have to put on my Sherlock hat. The curators only work weekdays so I will be contacting them next week to see if they have the data plates. Enclosed is a copy of the letter, names redacted to protect the innocent.
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