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effective firing light projectiles with
limited explosive yield.
Equilibrators -
Equilibrators are
devices that
balance a
barrel when its
center of m**** is...
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trail which limited gun
elevation to only 16°30'. Also,
there were no
equilibrators as the
trunnions were at the gun barrel's
center of balance. All of...
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Howitzer M1,
differing only in the gun tube, sleigh, cradle,
recoil and
equilibrators,
weight due to the
heavier barrel. The Long Tom saw
combat for the first...
- and the
recoil length is
variable from 850 to 1,100 mm. Two
pneumatic equilibrators balance the barrel,
weapon elevation and
traverse are all hydraulic...
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handwheel is on the left. To
compensate for
muzzle preponderance,
spring equilibrators are
mounted below the gun barrel. The gun is said to be well balanced...
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resulting from this
requirements was of the split-trail type with
pneumatic equilibrators,
permitting a
total traverse of 60°. Unfortunately, it "gave considerable...
- side and
could only be
towed through the
terrain at 15 km/h. Also, the
equilibrator had to be redesigned, as
described below.
Together with some
lesser considerations...
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simpler design from WWI
field artillery,
while the
complex hydropneumatic equilibrators had to be
swapped for
heavier but
cheaper and less
finicky spring ones...
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weight towards the breech. This,
although heavy, was
simpler than
adding equilibrators to
perform the same function. It
folded to
lower the gun's
height while...
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capable of
being towed at high speeds. The gun was
provided with a set of
equilibrators and was
capable of both high
angle fire +80° and 360° of traverse. In...
