M107 175mm SP Gun

[redreaper2020]

my dad used to load these.

[TheWhitetailhunter66]

HHB, 36th Arty Group, Babenhausen, Germany. march 67-march68. yes, they were great guns. left Germany for Nam in 68, assigned to HHC, lst Brigade, 25th infantry Division, Tay Ninh Base camp. 2Bn,32nd artillery, had these big guns along with the 8" howitzer. They rained hell on Victor Charlie and the North Vietnamese army. After the 24 hours Christmas cease fire in 68, it was these big guns that were the lst to let charlie know that the game was back on.

[MuskiePat]

I also served with 2nd BN/ 5th FA in Babenhausen when the conversion was made. I was a Mechanic with Charlie Battery. Those were great guns.

[bestamerica]

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today in america still have a 175mm big gun today

[kqr573v2]

My bro was in the 3rd 175mm gun battery, 11th Regiment, 1st Marine Division, Danang, 1969.

[BtlGeo]

I served in one of the two last 175mm gun battalions in the US Army. The 2nd Battalion, 5th FA, in Babenhausen, (West) Germany and the 6th Battalion, 9th FA, in Giessen, continued to use these guns until 1980. The V Corps Commander, to whom these battalions belonged, wanted to retain their 32.8 kilometer range because the "long-tube" 8-in howitzer was originally fielded without its muzzle brake and couldn't achieve its max range. When the muzzle brakes were fielded, we converted our guns.

[BtlGeo]

I actually witnessed the changing of 175mm gun tubes for 8 inch howitzer tubes in my battalion motor pool. The tubes were suspended from slings held by two five-ton wreckers. Two large nuts that held the tube to the recoil and counterrecoil cylinders were removed and the chassis was literally driven out from under the tube. Each one took less than an hour. The only other changes that needed to be made were to adjust the nitrogen pressure in the equilibrators and install the new sights.

[BtlGeo]

The 175mm gun used on this chassis was not originally a naval gun. It was specifically developed as an Army weapon. It was specifically designed to be readily interchangeable with the 8 inch howitzer tube. When I was a young lieutenant, my first sergeant told me that the battalion he was assigned to in Vietnam maintained both sets of tubes on hand and interchanged them regularly.

[sitwosaints]

Badaa bdoo whom woom. Nice to make your acquaintance, sir, and bdoom bdoom atcha. Doowop is a sadly neglected American art form, and should be cherished for the folk art that it is. Best wishes for Christmas xx

[MrDoowopper56]

Hi! My name is John "Marty" Trautman, co-founder & member of a New York City doo-wop group known as "The Chevrons". On December 11, 1962, I was drafted by the U.S. Army. I did my basic at Fort Dix, NJ, then spent 8 miserable months at Fort Sill, OK. I was with the 6th Bn, 10th Arty. We had a brand new artillery weapon known as "The 175mm SP Gun". We were shipped to Germany. The 175mm had a barrel 38 feet long. Awesome to watch in action! I am a proud veteran. I love my country!

[Ivan1the]

The United States lifted the gun for nothing with weapons. It is now sorely lacking among the troops. You could move it to a new chassis

Соединенные штаты зря сняли это орудие с вооружения. Его сейчас остро не хватает в войсках. Можно было перенести его на новое шасси

[rukus100821]

i wonder what the holes look like?

[oldsgtjoe]

I love these big guns 175MM, SP spent 4 year at 29 plams MCB. 1970 to 1974, did alot training with the 175 SP, and the M110A2 8 -inch SP , the 8 -inch can fire nuke artillery shells, that what the big brass told us,after 29 plams went to camp pendleton marine corps base, to 155MM, gun battery spent alot of times on these guns in Vietnam 1967 to 1969 but the 175MM was the king of artillery.

[mirtioo]

monster

[scud4984]

i spent 9 years in the British Artillery firing these guns,, fantastic bit of kit. :)

[nghnino]

This is rare, naval gun on wheels

[PliskinLee]

It's a 175 mm M107 SP. Built by the US and used by a number of countries. Fires a 155 pound shell 32 km.

[rwallage]

I spend too much time on one of these in the IDF. Shell can reach 40-42Km. Now decommissioned and only a few left in IDF museums and monuments.

[rokerwarrior]

@PliskinLee

147.8lb (2 square) max range 32.8km.

[bazookaman1944]

Rare? The military (ours and everyone elses) has a long history of slapping naval weapons on wheels and deploying them on land.

[clawfish1]

I gotta get one of those