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GENERAL PARTICULARS:
Calibre: 5.5 inches (140 mm) Weight: 5850 kg (5 3/4 tons approx.) Shell weight: 36.3 kg (80 lbs) high explosive. Smoke and illuminating also fired Rate of fire: 3 rpm Muzzle velocity: 510 metres/second (1673 f/s) with Charge 4 Number of charges: 4 Maximum range: 16,400 metres (17935 yards) Elevation: 45° Traverse: 30° right and left Detachment: 10
GraemeLeggett 14:32, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Korean service has just been removed. Can we source the actual units that served with this gun? 74 Medium Battery (Battleaxe) from Hong Kong was an obvious one, probably the most famous.
Some photos of 5.5s in high angle: http://www.riv.co.nz/rnza/pg/kor/awkor1.htm
Andy Dingley ( talk) 23:20, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Andy it appears that you are right in that according to this web page the 74th Medium Battery of the 32nd Medium Regiment Royal Artillery, which were equipped with 5.5s, served in Korea from February 1953 until some indeterminate point in the future. However I have as of yet been unable to find if any other unit deployed to Korea equipped with 5.5s other than the 98th Medium Battery which apparently which deployed to Korea shortly after the armistice was signed.
http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/royal-artillery/32nd-regiment-ra.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrniceguy101 ( talk • contribs) 15:52, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
In the 'Description' section, para 2, there is this: 'During World War II the PL Locks and AC Slide Boxes used with 0.5 inch tubes were replaced by PK Locks and Y Slide Boxes using 0.303 '.
I'm sure it is all very interesting, but what is a 'PL Lock' and a 'Slide Box' and so on? I have no idea and I'm sure I won't be the only reader of this article who is equally baffled.
RASAM ( talk) 14:08, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
There is also on in Newhaven Fort , Sussex UK 2A02:C7F:A108:5600:64B2:3432:803B:B2EC ( talk) 15:51, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
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GENERAL PARTICULARS:
Calibre: 5.5 inches (140 mm) Weight: 5850 kg (5 3/4 tons approx.) Shell weight: 36.3 kg (80 lbs) high explosive. Smoke and illuminating also fired Rate of fire: 3 rpm Muzzle velocity: 510 metres/second (1673 f/s) with Charge 4 Number of charges: 4 Maximum range: 16,400 metres (17935 yards) Elevation: 45° Traverse: 30° right and left Detachment: 10
GraemeLeggett 14:32, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Korean service has just been removed. Can we source the actual units that served with this gun? 74 Medium Battery (Battleaxe) from Hong Kong was an obvious one, probably the most famous.
Some photos of 5.5s in high angle: http://www.riv.co.nz/rnza/pg/kor/awkor1.htm
Andy Dingley ( talk) 23:20, 9 June 2015 (UTC)
Andy it appears that you are right in that according to this web page the 74th Medium Battery of the 32nd Medium Regiment Royal Artillery, which were equipped with 5.5s, served in Korea from February 1953 until some indeterminate point in the future. However I have as of yet been unable to find if any other unit deployed to Korea equipped with 5.5s other than the 98th Medium Battery which apparently which deployed to Korea shortly after the armistice was signed.
http://british-army-units1945on.co.uk/royal-artillery/32nd-regiment-ra.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrniceguy101 ( talk • contribs) 15:52, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
In the 'Description' section, para 2, there is this: 'During World War II the PL Locks and AC Slide Boxes used with 0.5 inch tubes were replaced by PK Locks and Y Slide Boxes using 0.303 '.
I'm sure it is all very interesting, but what is a 'PL Lock' and a 'Slide Box' and so on? I have no idea and I'm sure I won't be the only reader of this article who is equally baffled.
RASAM ( talk) 14:08, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
There is also on in Newhaven Fort , Sussex UK 2A02:C7F:A108:5600:64B2:3432:803B:B2EC ( talk) 15:51, 9 September 2021 (UTC)