Thread: 25-pdr in Korea
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Old 16-09-08, 23:42
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HI Guys:...It may have been that the range slightly exceeded that of the 81mm mortars so the gun was dug into the very odd gun pit!...I suspect that this is a sniping gun task on a programmed shoot.
I think we can rule out sniping gun tasks -this looks too contrived for that. The gun pit looks purpose-built for shoots beyond the normal upper register. This makes me think that they were testing something rather than delivering hot steel on enemy targets. Perhaps there was a recoil problem they were investigating? Perhaps they were testing a new fuze shell combo and wanted to see the terminal effects without venturing into enemy rifle range?
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