Recent content by Petard

While I had a part in mentoring many of the good soldiers of that unit, the real authors of that unit's success are the former CO's of 56 Fd and 42-30 Fd Regt's, respectively LCol Pitt and LCol Causey. Many of the 4 Div P Res Arty units were bolstered by their change in IT planning. They...

Ref blast and overpressure effects on towed gun dets: Canada only began testing for this with the M777 last year Yet another thing I looked after in DLR was artillery ancillary eqpt, including PPE. I had tried to get testing done back in the 2010's, but it kept getting delayed due to resource...

That's incorrect While in DLR I did the range study for the LRPRS; except for Meaford and Valcartier, any of the main impact areas for indirect fire training in Canada could be used. The main assumption was the M28 or M28A1 practice rockets, only, would be used. In the case of firing something...

I'm not sure it does have one common shell body for lethal and non lethal functions, perhaps they mean it's a family of projectiles with roughly the same ballistic performance? I'm skeptical of the argument every round needs a course correction fuze. It's not always possible, nor necessary in...

I think most of the answers have been already given as to why (it relates to the old way of calculating gun data manually), but the key one being you only have to order it out once at the start of the fire mission. It is correcting not only for non standard conditions, but also for the position...

Sadly, we are now entering an era without Her Majesty; long live the King. Right now, part of the scramble to enact Op Bridge will be to ensure appropriate gun salutes take place. It is very likely that the sorry state of the C3 fleet played a part in that, with the few serviceable guns being...

The idea of pooling guns at training centres isn't new, it just doesn't work very well for IT throughput, this has more to do with availability of staff and students, as well as conflicting task priorities during the summer (ceremonial guard tasks having higher priority for example) In the past...

I vaguely recall there was something problematic about getting old M101's to sustain our C1 fleet, before we binned it, but my old man brain can't seem to recall it exactly; maybe to do with the recoil mech? Not sure Anyway, the C182 data fired from the M119 barrel would be a lot closer to the...

There aren't enough LG1 barrels to fire off even the C182 rds, nevermind the unconverted C132 ones remaining. There were no takers when the idea of selling off that massive war stock was floated; why would were there be? Which is why DAEME went the direction it did, in creating the C182, to...

I believe the amount of 105mm howitzer ammunition still in stock is probably going to be a significant factor in what might end up replacing the C3 (that is what this thread's about right?) Back in 2004 and 2005 when all the M109's were binned, a significant amount of 105mm howitzer ammunition...

From what I'm hearing, It is clear from the VOR for both the C3 and LG1 fleets that this situation is not surprisingly getting worse. It is taking months to get a C3 repaired, some don't return, and the LG1 barrel cracking continues, as do other related ancillary eqpt issues. It was bad of...

And for comparison: a good overview of a possible adversary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ybxbmZPkLw

The short answer is no, even in 2010 when the trigger was pulled on the M109s, there were 26 that would’ve had no problem in being brought back online, and sustained for a decade or two. Same for about 4 of the M578 ARVs. As mentioned above, the M109s didn’t necessarily need to be upgraded...

The main difference between the A4's and A5's is that the ordnance was changed from the M185 to the M284 (and the mount), the powerplant was improved as well. This gave the M109 the potential to fire a bit further. The A6 variant, or Paladin, on the other hand is quite a change in fire control...

There were certainly bad decisions made that were contributing to the wear on the C3 fleet, and potentially accidents, not the least of which is the mad rush cross country after cease firing, with the gun bouncing in the air. I don't doubt there have been a number of incidents where a subunit...