Tank Accuracy in MOA

[ResearchinStuff]

Probably not burning islands.

 

[Clark33]

What is so cool about lighting an island on fire?

The only one concerned about conservation in this topic

 

[3325]

What is so cool about lighting an island on fire?

What isn’t cool about it?

 

[marc357]

Off hand, do you know what the effective range is on those tanks?

Seems pretty tough to shoot a tank offhand...

 

[3325]

when i did naval surface fire support (i.e. 5" gun bombardment of shore), we had to hit specific targets, but i don't recall ever being told the size of those targets. We did accidentally light an island on fire, that was pretty cool.

That is indeed pretty cool. Some of my most memorable moments in the Army are of things going slightly awry.

 

[Branny21]

lol I just quoted this the other day classic

 

[BigGameJames87]

when i did naval surface fire support (i.e. 5" gun bombardment of shore), we had to hit specific targets, but i don't recall ever being told the size of those targets. We did accidentally light an island on fire, that was pretty cool.

We routinely hit the killer tomatos (big orange target balloon) at 10-15k yards. That would be a 1.2 - 0.8 MOA target at those ranges. The limiting factor was really can your sensors (radar, optical sight) get you an accurate target position, course, and speed. If the solution was good the gun was going to nail it.

 

[06 SB]

My favorite picture from Ft Moore when I went for a weapons demonstration. It was awesome!

 

[ResearchinStuff]

We routinely hit the killer tomatos (big orange target balloon) at 10-15k yards. That would be a 1.2 - 0.8 MOA target at those ranges. The limiting factor was really can your sensors (radar, optical sight) get you an accurate target position, course, and speed. If the solution was good the gun was going to nail it.

Those things are freaking whale magnets

 

[rayporter]

fascinating pic

My favorite picture from Ft Moore when I went for a weapons demonstration. It was awesome!
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shooting bud has a collection of powder grains his dad made for the BIG guns. [battle ships] various sizes but in general about 1.2 in diameter and 3 in long.

makes for a big muzzle flash when you use 3 bags of it to push a 2000lb shell.

 

[whoami-72]

We routinely hit the killer tomatos (big orange target balloon) at 10-15k yards. That would be a 1.2 - 0.8 MOA target at those ranges. The limiting factor was really can your sensors (radar, optical sight) get you an accurate target position, course, and speed. If the solution was good the gun was going to nail it.

That is awesome

 

[CMP70306]

Those things are freaking whale magnets

Hold the **** up, you mean to tell me that NOAA was going to limit boats over 35ft to a max of 10 knots for 7 months of the year on the entirety of the east coast to “Protect the whales” meanwhile the Navy is out there giving whales the Jaws treatment because they like hanging out with the target balloons and catching navel shells?

 

[ResearchinStuff]

Hold the **** up, you mean to tell me that NOAA was going to limit boats over 35ft to a max of 10 knots for 7 months of the year on the entirety of the east coast to “Protect the whales” meanwhile the Navy is out there giving whales the Jaws treatment because they like hanging out with the target balloons and catching navel shells?

Can't shoot if there's a marine mammal or sea turtle on the range. Spent a couple hours one day watching a humpback toy with a killer tomatoe, couldn't even scare him away with the ship. Ended up having to cancel the gunnex because our time on the live range was up before the shake moved off.

 

[CMP70306]

Can't shoot if there's a marine mammal or sea turtle on the range. Spent a couple hours one day watching a humpback toy with a killer tomatoe, couldn't even scare him away with the ship. Ended up having to cancel the gunnex because our time on the live range was up before the shake moved off.

But did they ever accidentally kill one?

I’m still salty about NOAA trying to pull that shit.

 

[ResearchinStuff]

My ship didn't. You'd have to foia to know for sure, every ship has a marine mammal log.

 

[RockAndSage]

Almost everything that's cutting edge in the precision rifle world, in how to put a piece of metal precisely on a far away spot with chemical propellant, was figured out and mastered by artillery R&D by the 1980s. Same thing, different scale. It just took until now for market demand on smaller scale hardware to catch up.

 

[Nick4050]

now I want to see a (large) paper target with a 5 round proof group.