Latest posts tagged with #Gunnery on Bluesky
🔥 Coast Guard going LIVE! 🔥 PSU 301 bringing the heat with sea-to-sea live-fire training at Cherry Point! M240B machine guns + moving targets = ultimate marksmanship! 🎯 #CoastGuard #USCG #PSU301 #LiveFire #Gunnery #MilitaryTraining #marksmanship
#Grafenwoehr Training Area, Level I #gunnery spring of 86. This is one of my snapshots of Troop E, 2nd Sqdn, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment. These were our 1st gen M1s that we drew in 1983. The bustle racks were brand new bolt-on kits that our tankers had just installed. #tanktuesday #graf #abrams
I took this picture in May 1988 at a range on Grafenwöhr Training Area in #Germany. This is one of our tracks in Troop E, 2nd Sqdn, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment shooting baseline #gunnery. Of all my photos from the Army, this is probably my favorite. #USAREUR #Blackhorse
Shoreham Airfield Gunnery Trainer Dome on a sunny day. An 8m tall dome surrounded by scrubland, with peeling green paint and rusty window hatches.
Close up of a sign located in front of Shoreham Airfield Gunnery Trainer Dome. I've copy pasted the text from my photo, so excuse my phone's typos. Shoreham Airfield Trainer Dome is one of six remaining World War Il gunnery trainers in the UK. These dome-shaped buildings were used to teach gunners the art of airfield defence. With aircraft speeds in excess of 300mph (482kmh), successfully hitting an aircraft with a bullet required skill. The trick was to aim at a space in front of the aircraft. Training involved projecting a film of moving aircraft onto a mirror which reflected the scene onto the ceiling of the dome. The gunner could then practise taking aim at the plane with a dummy gun. The film used model aircraft and stop-frame Technicolour animation. Recordings of aircraft engines were played through speakers and the dummy weapon featured a realistic gun noise. To see whether they were aiming correctly the film was marked with a yellow dot which represented the aircraft's future position. The 'gun' shone a crosshair onto the ceiling to show where it was pointing - when the crosshair and the dot coincided a hit was recorded. Once gunners had mastered this, they put on yellow-coloured glass spectacles to make the yellow dot invisible to them, and practised hitting the aircraft without any aid. Construction of the dome began in 1942. It used a prefabricated kit of steel girders, over which a steel mesh was fixed. Concrete was poured onto the mesh and smoothed by hand before being coated with tar. The interior was covered in pre-formed plaster sheets to create a regular and smooth surface, with a void behind for air circulation. An internal partition separated the training area from a small lobby, cloakroom and plant room.
A close up of the peeling and rusty condition of the exterior of Shoreham Airfield Trainer Dome, with teasel plants and the stump of a tree.
Photograph of the interior of Shoreham Airfield Trainer Dome, taken through a mesh temporary fence panel. It's dark, the floor is covered in garbage and several inches of standing water, and there's graffiti on the walls
Went to #Brighton #Airport to take some reference photos for some new #artwork, finally got around to taking a look at the #Shoreham #Airfield #WWII #Gunnery #Trainer #Dome. Fascinating piece of #history, shame it's falling into disrepair.
"The Crew" by SGT Adam Glenday, #Grafenwoehr, Germany, 1990. U. S. Army Art Collection.
Few teams work and live so closely together as armored vehicle crews.
#tanker #M1Abrams #armor #Graf #gunnery
Updated this one with an email from Dr. David Fletcher on the @tankmuseum.bsky.social which I received in 2008 from him.
#ww2 #militaryhistory #armour #gunnery #desertwar #history
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A friend is currently visiting a former French battery on an island in the approaches to Dakar, Senegal.
Plenty of fighting in #WW2 with the 1940 British expedition.
Does anyone know what this is that has a joint and a hole on its side?
#artillery #gunnery
#WeHaveWaysPod
Continuing with the theme of early 18th century warships here is a link to a film of the latest discoveries from the #Protectedwreck Northumberland. Lost on the Goodwin Sands during the Great Storm of 1703. youtu.be/waQ74rMCZE0?...
#NavalHistory #Archaeology #MaritimeHistory #gunnery #cannon
Already longing for the new diving season so we can continue our excavation of the gundeck of #ProtectedWreck Hazardous. In the meantime here is a reminder of what we have done so far. #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #Archaeology #Shipwrecks #cannon #Gunnery
Automatic 25mm gun firing from the bow of a warship.
Sailors firing a .50cal machine gun at a target.
Rounds splash around a remote controlled target boat.
Round splashes straddle a target at sea.
Today is St Barbara’s Day, and she is the Patron Saint of Gunners. To mark the day, here are some photos of gunnery exercises onboard HMCS Margaret Brooke during Op Nanook 2022. A privilege to watch but LOUD! #photography #gunnery #navalgunnery #royalcanadiannavy #hmcsmargaretbrooke #opnanook
