Subdeacon Joe Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obice_da_305/17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 Looks about as practical as a barbed wire jock strap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 6 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Looks about as practical as a barbed wire jock strap. ....... and about as comfortable too .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 4, 2021 Author Share Posted December 4, 2021 4 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Looks about as practical as a barbed wire jock strap. It let them bring 12 inch coastal defense guns up to use on the field. I think that's a pretty big deal. Not up to the standard of WWII Self Propelled guns, but what WWI artillery was up to WWII standards? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 And that's why it's not practical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 1 hour ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Looks about as practical as a barbed wire jock strap. Ww1 was just a dress rehearsal for WW2, improve what’s practical and discard the junk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 10 hours ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Looks about as practical as a barbed wire jock strap. Of course, it is! It's Italian. When have the Italians ever let a little thing like practicality influence them? These are the folks that came up with the Villar-Perosa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 4, 2021 Author Share Posted December 4, 2021 28 minutes ago, Smuteye John SASS#24774 said: Villar-Perosa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawg Hair, SASS #29557 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 The Italians invented EXOTIC, anything! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 24 minutes ago, Subdeacon Joe said: Joe, Don't forget, it started off as aircraft armament. Their observers were, one time, armed with a box fed, twin barreled machine gun chambered in what is essentially 9x19 MINUS P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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