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Old 05-03-15, 19:55
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I just saw on the news that the Canadian Forces now tow their guns up Highway 400 in an inverted position. Yes wheel up. Plays Hell with the traffic though.
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Old 05-03-15, 20:32
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Is that like the missionary position???

Could result in a crack up!!!!

Will you grace us with your presence Saturday...?

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Old 06-03-15, 00:24
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Link to one version of the news story.
http://barrie.ctvnews.ca/artillery-c...sfil-1.2265924
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Old 06-03-15, 01:21
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wonder if they will sell it as a scratch and dent sale, need something like that to pull behind my halftrack
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Old 06-03-15, 02:50
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.....someone or a few of them are going to be doing KP amd latrine duties for a long time..............

Did it get off the pintle hook or just bounced on pot holes.......

Will watch CADC.

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Old 06-03-15, 03:08
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I am sure our resident expert Rob L will chime in on this or one of our resident Gunners...
I believe the pintle hook on the MLVW may be articulating.
I could see the possibility of a sudden lane change whipping the towed gun and if they hit a large pothole or perhaps a big chunk of snow or ice in the lane that may have launched it up and over.
At any rate the RSM won't be happy.
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Old 06-03-15, 03:21
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Link to one version of the news story.
http://barrie.ctvnews.ca/artillery-c...sfil-1.2265924
Australian gun found its way to Canada is all.
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Old 06-03-15, 11:13
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Default Typical News Report

Cannon, come on that headline implies that the Canadian military was towing a 12-pdr; but I guess the reporter has never heard the term howitzer. Of course CTV did report during on the evening news following the Cirillo funeral that his young son was wearing a 'chequered beret' instead of the correct term - glengarry. So much for those university journalism degrees.
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Old 06-03-15, 13:41
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Of the three or four howitzers that were out in the scrapyard that I used to make my C1, pretty much all of them showed signs of having been rolled and dragged. There is no suspension on a C1 (M2A2) and the C3 is no different suspension wise. It is also not very visible behind the towing vehicle. When they start to bounce, stuff happens.

Generally, the damage ends up being bent sheilds and the support brackets, along with the damaged elbow telescope mount.

In the photo, the clamp holding the two trails seems to have failed and allowed the one leg to move away. Hopefully (for the sake of the number one) that happened after the rollover and was not the cause of it.

Regarding the term cannon, it is applicable to the M2A2. The very first entry in the parts manual is "Cannon, 105 mm howitzer, M2A1". While I am no fan of the way journalists sensationalize things on the news these days, I was glad to see that they did not manage to put the term "AK47" or UZI into this story.

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