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Offline Mister Fork

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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #180 on: November 05, 2014, 10:52:23 AM »
It's smooth bore, not rifled, so I'm not sure it's any kind of barrel - maybe a shaft of some kind? Prop shaft? Periscope?  There is also some what looks like of reddish-orange rust - and bearings...so it must be some kind on motorized device - like an engine to a tank or a plane.

P-39 prop shaft? Or maybe something German?  Messerschmitt engine? Or Maybach?
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #181 on: November 05, 2014, 11:02:11 AM »
Damn, Fork, if that isn't a shotgun answer. :lol
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #182 on: November 05, 2014, 11:04:58 AM »
Close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades. :D

Fine, prop shaft from either a Tiger 1 or a Bf109.  :neener:
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #183 on: November 05, 2014, 11:58:50 AM »
Quote from: GScholz on October 30, 2014, 05:25:37 PM
Ok, I got one...


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Was that the tornado gun that the Germans made?
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #184 on: November 05, 2014, 02:04:58 PM »
OK - it's a prop shaft of the Bf-109 but in the end is a MG 151/20. The MG fires through the prop shaft of a Bf-109.  I was partly correct and completely fracking wrong at the same time.  :lol

This is the finished product...
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #185 on: November 05, 2014, 02:33:18 PM »
Ok - I'm up.

Should be easy...


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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #186 on: November 05, 2014, 02:46:47 PM »
Yes its the barrel end of an MG151\20 in the blast tube of a DB605. Good sleuthing.

The most important part is you can clearly see the Stützstern or "supporting star" bolt on washer that keeps the barrel centered in the 65mm blast tube. Early blast tubes were 57mm and the washers were pressure fit. This is why in our game's convergence application, the ability to adjust the range of the HUB mounted 109 canons is a gamey reality allowing up tilting of the gun barrel. Same for the yaks 20\37mm and P39. La's were installed level and the round had a 6cm drop at 200m.

With HUB mounted cannon and the mounting in the La, if you wanted to adjust for a range. It was done by adjusting the gunsight so the center of the reticle corresponded to the IP point at your chosen range. The 109 IP for 20mm was set for 700m while for the 30mm was set to 400m. Yak and La were set to 200m. The best I can tell with the P39, the 37mm IP was set for 2000ft by adjusting the gunsight to the 37mm IP point at 2000ft. While the 30cal and 50cal being set to intersect and converge the gunsight sight line at 900-1000ft.
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #187 on: November 05, 2014, 05:12:36 PM »
Quote from: Mister Fork on November 05, 2014, 02:33:18 PM
Ok - I'm up.

Should be easy...

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There IS one image on the web like it (I checked) and we all know it's a field artillary piece...(of course the terrain and uniforms will help).  Do we need any more help/tips?  It came out of my Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons and Warfare. (There are 24 volumes :P)

Hint - the wheels are a dead giveaway.
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #188 on: November 05, 2014, 05:25:53 PM »
Quote from: Rob52240 on November 05, 2014, 11:58:50 AM
Was that the tornado gun that the Germans made?

Yeah... Those crazy Jerries!
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #189 on: November 05, 2014, 06:16:08 PM »
Quote from: Mister Fork on November 05, 2014, 05:12:36 PM
There IS one image on the web like it (I checked) and we all know it's a field artillary piece...(of course the terrain and uniforms will help).  Do we need any more help/tips?  It came out of my Illustrated Encyclopedia of Weapons and Warfare. (There are 24 volumes :P)

Hint - the wheels are a dead giveaway.

http://www.flamesofwar.com/default.aspx?tabid=112&art_id=1019&kb_cat_id=33

Obice da 100/17 modello 14?
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #190 on: November 05, 2014, 07:38:38 PM »
Quote from: Mister Fork on November 05, 2014, 02:33:18 PM
Ok - I'm up.

Should be easy...

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German leFH18, 105mm howitzer?
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #191 on: November 06, 2014, 03:57:16 PM »
Quote from: Wmaker on November 05, 2014, 07:38:38 PM
German leFH18, 105mm howitzer?
Nailed it. First try.  Nice Wmaker... (pssst...did you look in your Weapons and Warfare books?) :) 

You're up.
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #192 on: November 06, 2014, 04:14:59 PM »
Quote from: Mister Fork on November 06, 2014, 03:57:16 PM
(pssst...did you look in your Weapons and Warfare books?) :)  

I googled it. :)

I know next to nothing about artilley pieces/howitzers. I know that they fire huge projectiles at various (quite low) muzzle velocities and that's it! :rofl

I'll start looking something to post.

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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #193 on: November 06, 2014, 07:07:35 PM »
Quote from: Wmaker on November 06, 2014, 04:14:59 PM
I'll start looking something to post.

Ok, here:
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Re: Name that WW2 Thing
« Reply #194 on: November 07, 2014, 05:29:41 AM »
Airborne searchlight?

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