Administrators Eric Posted August 12, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted August 12, 2019 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWARREN123 Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 That last one looks like a old 175mm Long Tom. Last one I saw fire was in Korea in the early "70s. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 12, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted August 12, 2019 3 hours ago, DWARREN123 said: That last one looks like a old 175mm Long Tom. Last one I saw fire was in Korea in the early "70s. That’s Atomic Annie. She is a 280mm piece. That one is set up at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. There is also one set up at FT Sill, Oklahoma. I’ve seen that one many Times. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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G21H30 Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 34 minutes ago, Eric said: That’s Atomic Annie. She is a280mm piece. That one is set up at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. There is also one set up at FT Sill, Oklahoma. I’ve seen that one many Times. There is also one on a hill Overlooking Fort Riley.Kansas 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, railfancwb said: Was that called Davy Crocket? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk I saw a dummy shell for that artillery piece at an Oak Ridge Nuclear Museum. I was astounded at how small it was. Sitting on end on the floor, you could cover it up with two paper grocery bags. That small and capable of an atomic blast. Just incredible! Of course, it was heavy as hell! Edited August 12, 2019 by janice6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cubdriver Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 Very impressive balance and mechanism given that it took only five guys to manually rotate it in yaw! I would have guess that it needed either power or a crazily geared down crank to do that. Wow! Very cool! -Pat 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 12, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted August 12, 2019 9 minutes ago, Cubdriver said: Very impressive balance and mechanism given that it took only five guys to manually rotate it in yaw! I would have guess that it needed either power or a crazily geared down crank to do that. Wow! Very cool! -Pat That is a great video. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 4 hours ago, pipedreams said: Not much toe protection with those shoes. But, then again, they were more worried about protecting the people using their products than themselves. This was probably America's finest hour. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 12, 2019 Share Posted August 12, 2019 1908 the first Model T Ford rolls off the assembly line. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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railfancwb Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 Was that also a nuclear warhead?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 13, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted August 13, 2019 2 minutes ago, railfancwb said: Was that also a nuclear warhead? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Yep. It was a ten to twenty-ton warhead. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 I wonder how far the development project for the nuclear hand grenade went. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cubdriver Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 1 hour ago, gwalchmai said: I wonder how far the development project for the nuclear hand grenade went. -Pat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Eric Posted August 13, 2019 Author Administrators Share Posted August 13, 2019 1 hour ago, gwalchmai said: I wonder how far the development project for the nuclear hand grenade went. Throw a nuke down a bug hole, you got a lot of dead bugs. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 13, 2019 Share Posted August 13, 2019 1961 East German police and soldiers begin erecting the Berlin Wall. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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