Chinook Howitzers

[soulezoo]

Reading the thread on "ship busters" for ww II and the mention of B-25s with 75mm howitzers, that reminded me of this:

Has anyone else seen this before?

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/750150.pdf

It's basically a CH-47C with two externally mounted forward firing 105mm howitzers.

 

[Airframes]

Heck, I would have thought even one would knock the Chinook out of the sky if fired !

 

[tomo pauk]

Got to admit never hearing about those soft-recoil howitzers, let alone they attempted installing them on the Chinook.

In your face, A-10!

 

[tyrodtom]

It's just a design study, they never actually did it.

I see a lot of concern about how much reinforcing they'd have to do of the fuselage to withstand the muzzle blast.

 

[CharlesBronson]

Is worth to mention that the XM204 105mm gun had "soft" recoil but fire a full power 105mm catrigde, the "softeness" in the backward force was given by a ingenious mechanism who fired then gun when the barrel is travelling forward. A excellent weapon for quick deploying forces, a bit expensive than a M102 obviously but with a lot of advantages, dunno why it wasnt put in production.