81mm mortar

[vonGarvin]

INTERMEDIATE....sorry, we're doing transitional phases at AOC, and it's like I'm Jack Nicholson in the Shining, repeating the same phrase over and over again!


Thanks

 

[Old Sweat]

I love it when infantrymen try to talk technical. The question was obviously about the round ball shaped thingy that fits into the base plate.

 

[vonGarvin]

TRUE STORY:
Last computer assisted exercise (CAX) here on AOC, I was the FSCC: the guns.  The puckster is a former gunner.  Naturally, I received a bit of ribbing when my final fire mission was on an enemy mortar baseplate: some 10 rounds/gun by the REGIMENT (pseudo regiment: three batteries: one DS and two reinforcing)

Today, we go in and I introduce the new student gunner to this guy.  I say "I'm no longer guns", to which the old guy says "Thank god for that"  (with a wink, of course).  Then he mentioned something about "wandering in the field, seeing some tubes.  He thought they were urinals, so he pissed in them"

That's ok, I reminded him that for engineers, UBIQUE means "EVERYWHERE", where for the guns it means "ALL OVER THE PLACE"

;D

 

[Petard]

What's going on here? Hauptman I thought you were called in to clean up the thread (ala Pulp Fiction's Mr Wolf)? ;D

 

[Michael OLeary]

I think Hauptman sees himself more as Vincent Vega.

 

[GUNS]

Back in the day when the Dead Sea was not sick and OldSweat was a young pup in Shilo. We always referred to the end of the barrel/tube as the " working end " to avoid confusion

 

[Michael OLeary]

Back in the day when the Dead Sea was not sick and OldSweat was a young pup in Shilo. We always referred to the end of the barrel/tube as the " working end " to avoid confusion

Woundn't that be counter-intuitive?  In a mortar, it's the rebound socket and breech plug that 'work' against the recoil forces generated by the expanding gasses of burning increments, and in a gun it's the breech, recoil mechanism and trails that do the work.  The muzzle just happens to be there, providing some final guidance but without exerting itself.

Now, perhaps in the days you are referring to, it was the end of the barrel where you worked, with sponge and rammer.  ;D

 

[geo]

TRUE STORY:

That's ok, I reminded him that for engineers, UBIQUE means "EVERYWHERE", where for the guns it means "ALL OVER THE PLACE"
;D

Thank you!

CHIMO!

 

[GUNS]

Wouldn't that be counter-intuitive?  In a mortar, it's the rebound socket and breech plug that 'work' against the recoil forces generated by the expanding gasses of burning increments, and in a gun it's the breech, recoil mechanism and trails that do the work.  The muzzle just happens to be there, providing some final guidance but without exerting itself.

Now, perhaps in the days you are referring to, it was the end of the barrel where you worked, with sponge and rammer.   ;D

You are not far off on the sponge and rammer.

We actually used a role of toilet paper which was rammed through from the breech end(m109) and a gunner was waiting on the " working end " (where projectile exited) to remove toilet paper from muzzle brake and push rammed back through barrel.