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"Cannon on land , gun on ship"

How do explain a 30mm cannon on an aircraft? Or the 105mm howitzer on Puff?
 
"Cannon on land , gun on ship"

How do explain a 30mm cannon on an aircraft? Or the 105mm howitzer on Puff?
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True

A cannon is an intermediate-sized gun, usually 20mm to 40mm in bore diameter. Cannon are included in the small arms category but are usually vehicle-borne, rather than person-carried. Linky
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True too.

Prespective is key. NAVAL jargon is always gun on ship, cannon on ground. I got it wrong first try too.

Land=105mm cannon/howitzer
Naval= 6 inch gun

Both similar weapons, just differnt jargon :)
 
Mark Twain said:
"Cannon on land , gun on ship"

How do explain a 30mm cannon on an aircraft? Or the 105mm howitzer on Puff?
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True

A cannon is an intermediate-sized gun, usually 20mm to 40mm in bore diameter. Cannon are included in the small arms category but are usually vehicle-borne, rather than person-carried. Linky
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True too.

Prespective is key. NAVAL jargon is always gun on ship, cannon on ground. I got it wrong first try too.

Land=105mm cannon/howitzer
Naval= 6 inch gun

Both similar weapons, just differnt jargon :)
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Navy nerd. :laugh:
 
The Corps had a 106mm recoiless rifle until about 1978. I won't even get into flack cannons :p
 
The Corps had a 106mm recoiless rifle until about 1978. I won't even get into flack cannons tongue.gif
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The 106 had a rifled barrel, making it a non-cannon, the current Abrams tanks deployed round the world have a 120mm smooth bore cannon.

Most cannons don't have rifled barrel. True for most Flak cannons as well.


Let the nerd war begin :p
 
I don't even know where to begin with that. The 105, 155, 175, 203 and 240MM howitzers all have rifled barrels. Those are the current inventory howiters for the last 50 years or so. The 175 and 240mm have been retired, the others are current in the US inventory.
 
hmm. I admit defeat. You're right.

i thought Howitzers had done away from rifled barrels and moved on to fin-stablized rounds or rocket assit rounds for range.

Good call AVB
 
Only the South Africans and Germans have the finned rounds at the moment but even those have rifled barrels as the fins ride in the grooves. :)

EDIT: I should say that is only for standard rounds. RAP or RAM do have deployed fins after the round leaves the barrel.
 
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