#anti-aircraft gun

[carbone14]

Canon antiaérien Solothurn ST5 de 20 mm de conception suisse utilisé par l'Armée Nationale Révolutionnaire – 1930's

©Republic of China - Ministry of the National Defense

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Destroyed Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka,  Bairak, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, 2023. Source:  Naalsio26

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"DEFEND TOKIO IN MIMIC WARFARE," Hamilton Spectator. August 31, 1933. Page 1. --- Here are Japanese soldiers, wearing camouflage, operating anti-aircraft and machine guns from the roof of a Tokio building during recent defense maneuvers when the city was under theoretical attack. Thousands of soldiers took part.

[goshyesvintageads]

General Motors Corp, 1944

[whats-in-a-sentence]

This 1943 painting by Laura Knight (1877-1970) depicts 21-year-old Ruby Loftus (2921-2004) working at an industrial lathe cutting the screw of a breech-ring for a Bofors anti-aircraft gun. Ruby became an expert in the production of breech-rings in just seven months – something that usually took years. After the war, Ruby and her husband John Green emigrated to Canada and she never worked in a factory or engineering again.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[theworldatwar]

British soldiers examine an abandoned German 88mm anti-aircraft gun - North Africa, exact date unknown

[blueiscoool]

Leader Of The Pack

No matter what you say, but when a girl next to you carries out exemplary service, you yourself always give one hundred percent.

Maybe that is why the calculation of the anti-aircraft installation, where the commander of the anti-aircraft division Victoria serves, is one of the best in the brigade.

[thefrontierfacade]

Korean War Photo, ~1950-1954, US army test firing.

Believed to be an 90 millimeter M1 anti-aircraft gun on the M1A1 mount base.

Thanks to @twoseparatecoursesmeet for the HD scan.

[hollow-keys]

Things I think we should ban:

Private jets

Cruise ships

Golf

[historyofguns]

The article "Ma Deuce — The M2 .50-Caliber Machine Gun" by Will Dabbs, MD, published by The Armory Life, delves into the history and significance of the iconic M2 Browning .50-caliber machine gun, commonly known as "Ma Deuce." It highlights the weapon's origins, tracing back to American General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing's need during World War I for a machine gun capable of confronting German observation aircraft. Designed by John Moses Browning and further developed to address velocity shortcomings, the M2 became the longest-serving firearm in U.S. military history. Featuring a .50 BMG round, it offers significant firepower and versatility, finding use on tanks, ships, aircraft, and with ground forces. The article also discusses the M2's adaptations for aerial combat, its upgrade to the M2A1 model for improved performance, and its continued deployment across various military platforms, maintaining its status as a vital component of U.S. military firepower for over a century.

[carbone14]

Flak en action – Carte postale allemande – 1940

[tenth-sentence]

They also worked in mixed batteries on anti-aircraft guns, despite officially not being allowed to fire them.

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Canadian Army Women to Train As Anti-Aircraft Gun Operators," Toronto Star. April 30, 1943. Page 27. ---- BRITISH WOMEN TERRITORIALS OPERATE "A.A." GUNS ---- Ottawa, April 30 - (CP) - Members of the Canadian Women's Army Corps will be trained as "plotter telephonists" and will eventually take their place with men manning anti-aircraft artillery, defence headquarters has announced.

Women in Britiain's auxiliary territorial service - the British women's army - have been used on similar duty for some months. Some have helped operate London's guns during air raids.

Women selected must have grade 10 in education, have ability at map-reading and mathematics and possess a "keen interest" in artillery, the statement said.

[jcmarchi]

The Defenders of Ukraine Are Using Brand New German Caracal Off-Roaders - Technology Org

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The Defenders of Ukraine Are Using Brand New German Caracal Off-Roaders - Technology Org

The war in Ukraine will soon reach its two-year ‘anniversary’. It’s been going on for so long and the end is nowhere in sight. The defenders of Ukraine need tools to protect their country and some of those tools are literally brand new, getting their first taste of action right in the middle of a large armed conflict in Europe.

One of these new tools is the Rheinmetall Caracal. It is a new light off-road vehicle, based on the Mercedes-Benz G-Class chassis. The G-Class, of course, was developed with military applications in mind and this new vehicle is rugged, tough and versatile.

The production of Caracal started just this year. Back in November, Rheinmetall announced that 5 Caracal vehicles will be sent to Ukraine by the end of the year and it is believed that they are already in the hands of the defenders of Ukraine.

Caracal features a highly modular construction – all kinds of protective panels and weapons can be mounted to it. Image credit: Rheinmetall

The Caracal is an air-transportable off-roader, primarily aimed at airborne and special operations missions. It weighs under 4.4 tonnes and is just a bare frame, to which various pieces of armoured protection or other equipment can be mounted. Large helicopters like the CH-47F Chinook and CH-53K King Stallion can transport up to two vehicles inside, but the Caracal is happy to travel underslung under the aircraft.

One of the more interesting features of the Caracal is the Rheinmetall’s Rapid Obscuring System (Rosy), which allows this vehicle to deploy a multispectral smoke screen to hide from enemies. All kinds of weapons can be mounted on the Caracal frame, which makes it a very versatile platform.

In images, it can be seen with grenade launchers, heavy machine guns, and anti-tank missiles. The Caracal is an extremely versatile platform – weapons and ballistic protection can be configured for a specific mission. Different Caracals can perform personnel transport, reconnaissance, field ambulance, command post, freight and other duties

The fact that the Caracal is based on the latest G-Class chassis is a great feature too. This means that parts are readily available pretty much everywhere in the world. And the chassis components should be reliable, as they are in such a massive production. Rheinmetall offers full life cycle support over 20 years for Caracal, which shows their confidence in the reliability of this off-roader.

Caracal is based on the Mercedes-Benz G-Class chassis, which means that parts for it are readily available everywhere. Image credit: Rheinmetall

Speaking of the chassis, Caracal has an old-school 6-cylinder Mercedes-Benz diesel, pushing out 183 kW of power and 600 Nm of torque. It’s enough for the Caracal to reach 130 km/h on the road and be quite a formidable force off-road. For example, the manufacturer says that Caracal can climb up a 60 % gradient and ford waters as deep as 700 mm.

Ukraine needs all the tools it can get. As this war is turning into a trench warfare with rapid storming assault operations, quick and light off-roaders will be needed. On top of that, the Caracal can fulfill duties of a field ambulance and a cargo vehicle, which is also very important.

Written by Povilas M.

Sources: Espreso.tv, Rheinmetall

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[whats-in-a-sentence]

Their marching to the tune of 'Anchors Away' suggests different:

We are the ATS marching along

We are the Ack Ack girls

and this is just our marching song

We joined the Royal Artillery

to fight for yours and mine

And when we see a jerry plane

we shoot the blighter

Shoot the blighter down

"Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History" - Philippa Gregory

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

so in an attempt to actually use positive thinking, anytime i fuck up and my brain reacts as if ive cause a minor apocalyptic event, i compare my fuck up to the 4 minute fuck up committed by the crew of the uss william d porter.

and only today, as i was having to explain what happened to my mom when i was explaining the whole comparison thing, did i realise that most people dont know about it and ive decided that needs to change because its objectively hilarious.

...which is a weird thing to say about an event that occured on a warship in 1943, specifically november 14th.

see the uss william d porter was a fletcher-class destroyer but you dont need to know what that means, just that she had guns that went bang bang and that she was escorting another ship, the uss iowa, to cairo.

while they were on their way there, they performed some gun trials like testing the anti-aircraft guns or the torpedos. and while they were running a torpedo drill, the crew of the porter managed to fire a live torpedo straight at the iowa which you know, in terms of a list of things to do while escorting a ship, shooting a torpedo at them is not on that list.

especially if the president of the united states is on board.

yeah so fdr was on board and the gun trials were actually his idea, and part of the trials was that they were conducted under radio silence.

and that means the crew of the porter couldnt just call the iowa to be like "move out the way, we accidentally shot a torpedo at you."

but they did have signal lamps and you know, the signalman on board was trained to signal this exact kind of message.

...and uh never mind, the signalman did manage to successfully tell the iowa that a torpedo was coming toward them but wasnt as successful when it came to the direction the torpedo was coming from.

not all hope is lost though because the signalman could still use the signal lamp to correct his previous mistake and-, never mind, he announced that the porter was reversing, which she wasnt.

yeah so at catastrophic mistake number 3, they broke radio silence to warn the iowa and she managed to turn out of the way just in time which meant no one got hurt. and even though the inquiry into the incident led to chief torpedoman (fantastic job title btw) lawton dawson being sentences to hard labour, fdr intervened and waved away his sentence, saying it was all an accident.

but yeah, so thats my new measure for "how much did i really fuck up?" and when i compared accidentally picking up a pencil case without a tag on it in wilko, turns out it was a very minor fuck-up. yes, the cashier had to ask another worker to grab a duplicate so they could scan the barcode, but i didnt nearly kill the president during wartime via accidental friendly fire