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This wheel design that came to be called artillery wheels was extensively used with artillery. [4] For example, this type of wheel was used on the pictured Armstrong gun , used in Japan in 1868. A similar design was used for a gun carriage for the US Army 's 3.2-inch gun in 1881, with a wheel diameter of 57 inches (1,448 mm), based on testing ...
During the interwar period the carriage had its wooden spoked wheels replaced with modern steel wheels and pneumatic tyres. During World War II, its use was restricted after 1942 when the replacement BL 5.5 inch Medium Gun came into use but it was reintroduced in Burma due to a number of premature detonations in 5.5-inch (140 mm) guns. It was ...
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Wheeled British WWII Scammell Pioneer towing an 8-inch howitzer Tracked Finnish WWII Komsomolets (captured from USSR) Half-tracked German Sd.Kfz. 7 towing an 8.8cm Flak. An artillery tractor, also referred to as a gun tractor, is a specialized heavy-duty form of tractor unit used to tow artillery pieces of varying weights and calibres.
The Akatsiya chassis Objekt 303 is based on that of the Object 123 tracked chassis [4] of the 2K11 Krug surface-to-air missile system; it includes six (rather than seven as in the 2K11 Krug) twin rubber-tired road wheels, four rubber-tired return rollers (two single and two twin), front drive sprocket with detachable sprocket rings (lantern ...
English Civil War Artillery 1642-51. Oxford: Osprey. Kinard, Jeff. Artillery: An Illustrated History of Its Impact. Needham, Joseph. Science and Civilisation in China: Military Technology: The Gunpowder Epic
Note that each category will include weapons that are in that general size class. Weapons of similar caliber may differ in exact caliber (i.e. 76 mm and 76.2 mm will both be under 76 mm artillery). Non metric calibers are placed within the nearest calculated metric category.
This was intended to equalise the weight born by the 2 gun carriage wheels and the 2 wheels of the limber towing the gun, [10] hence minimising the weight born by any single wheel. Its cradle was difficult to make. [11] [page needed] Mk I carriage had the usual field artillery wooden spoked wheels with iron tyres.