SCG: Artillery

[RSK]

On the proving ground near Backa Topola

ARTILLERYMEN MATURING

Everything is so convincing in artillery!

Compared to a vehicle, a man is like a crumb. Those are a rather scary vehicles weighing several tons. Large calibre grenades weigh more than forty kilograms, gun carriage exceeds the grasp of two hands, ranges are measured in dozens of kilometres and digging in and making shelters is rather strenuous - last for eight hours. The voice of artillery is powerful - the earth shakes and the skies tremble.

Experienced soldiers, who went through war, say that there is nothing better than the sound of your own artillery missiles, and the youngest, still in training, are yet to discover all that.

December generation of artillerymen that we visited in Backa Topola went through the troops school of life and experienced what may be the most difficult side of the training, by performing the final tactical drill in extremely difficult weather and terrain conditions. They learnt what six or eight tons in their hands meant, but they are looking forward to the opportunity to shoot with live ammunition on a proving ground and hear the fire symphony of artillery pieces.

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1. In the field


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2. Final command: Fire!

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3. Imitator of the "Plamen S" MLRS effects

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4. Getting ready to move in five minutes

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5. Shelter dug up last night

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6. What is a six ton field piece

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7. Fire position co-ordinates checked by GPS

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8. Changing fire position

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9. Captain First Class Boban Masic: These guys are great!

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10. Lifting the 152-mm howitzer support

[Tengu]

great pics man. I'm going to join the army soon. I'll probably go for artillery as well. DAMN i like those big guns makes me forget about my small *****.

[mustamato]

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3. Imitator of the "Plamen S" MLRS effects

Nice pictures! But I didn´t get this part, "imitator"? Some specifications of
this nice motha (used in the Finnish artillery as well)

http://www.mil.fi/maavoimat/joukot/tykpr/152_h_55.jpg

CALIBER: 152 mm
GUN RANGE: 16 km
FIRE RATE: 4 r/min
WEIGHT OF GUN: 5700 kg
WEIGHT OF SHELL: 43 kg

[RSK]

[quote=RSK]http://www.vj.yu/img/ilustracije/Publikacije/Vojska/ob636/sl.3.jpg
3. Imitator of the "Plamen S" MLRS effects

I think its a training tool used to show the effects of the Plamen MLRS. A miniture mock of the system i guess??

[FinnishMF]

http://www.vj.yu/img/ilustracije/Publikacije/Vojska/ob636/sl.5.jpg

That makes no sense rofl

I was in artillery too. And we didn't made foxholes where all men die in one hit :|

[Jack Mehoff]

It looks like a hole to protect artillerymen against counter battery fire or air raid. THat's a ****ing big hole too.

[FinnishMF]

It looks like a hole to protect artillerymen against counter battery fire. THat's a f*** big hole too.
exactly, I was in artillery forces after all. We made many personal or two man foxholes.

[Jack Mehoff]

But one man doesn't have the time to dig a hole that deep all by himself.

[RSK]

I think they have a good reason to do that.

Serbia and the Former Yugoslavia spent alot of time developing their artillery strategies and tactics since WWII. Artillery in Serbia is considered more, how can I say this, of and asset, rather than tanks.

I cant explain this now.

I just remember one JNA motto: "Why send a soldier where a artillery shell can go first!"

[Groove]

Great Pics ! Just wondering they are using GPS.

[DEMSPEC]

http://www.vj.yu/img/ilustracije/Publikacije/Vojska/ob636/sl.5.jpg
Looks like a World War 1 photo

[Piotrek]

I think its a training tool used to show the effects of the Plamen MLRS. A miniture mock of the system i guess??

Probably it has quiet similar balistics as full scale MLRS - of course it is rather imposible for such small rocket to have similar range as big ones so I think that it has similar balistics in some scale so they probably are shooting smaller targets on smaller distances but all settings are the same - thats my opinion.

[Backis]

That makes no sense rofl

I was in artillery too. And we didn't made foxholes where all men die in one hit :|

They probably "cheated" and used an excavator to dig that trench.

Saves a hell of a lot of time.. but as said, one "lucky" shot and there goes the whole gun crew...

[AN_TPS_63A]

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Looks like a World War 1 photo

Is that US 105mm M101A1 Howitzer?