We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/01/just_because_im_in_the_mood_for_cannon.html Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:44:45 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification First - the 13-pounder Nery Gun from the Imperial War Museum... representing artillery technology 100 years ago. All Redlegs have a soft spot in our hearts and heads for this gun and the gunners of Battery L, Royal Horse Artillery. Action at Nery, 1st September 1914. During the fighting retreat from Mons, Battery L of the Royal Horse Artillery bivouacked by a small town of Nery. Their temporary halt was interrupted during the early morning cavalry patrol warning of the imminent arrival of a large German force of cavalry, infantry and artillery. almost immediately German shells began bursting amongst the... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/01/just_because_im_in_the_mood_for_cannon.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/01/just_because_im_in_the_mood_for_cannon.html Fri, 16 Jan 2004 06:47:50 -0600 As chance would have it, I was flipping thru Ian Hogg's "Artillery in Color 1920-1963" just last night, and had noticed the elegant proportions of the 13 pdr. and the rope coiled around the recoil damper. As of 1980, the Royal Horse still used 13 pdrs for ceremonial salutes. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/01/just_because_im_in_the_mood_for_cannon.html#comment-1778 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/01/just_because_im_in_the_mood_for_cannon.html#comment-1778 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 20:22:19 -0600 I worked with the company that builds the AS90 before it was bought out by Vickers. I wondered what a shipbuilder was doing manufacturing self-propelled howitzers until the weapons buyer pointed out warships often have, like, big guns. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/01/just_because_im_in_the_mood_for_cannon.html#comment-1774 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2004/01/just_because_im_in_the_mood_for_cannon.html#comment-1774 Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:24:26 -0600