Parachute artillery

Found this picture and for any of you that have some paras, a power hog and the 105mm light howitzer…



-Nate

That`s really cool , and not so hard to replicate if you have those things .

7th Parachute Regiment, Royal Horse Artillery.

Wow! A real life GI Joe Adventure Team vehicle!

That's a light 105mm gun I wish we had in the Canadian Army.

I can wish, can't I?

So what are all those saplings?
I'm guessing they are used as tent poles for some kind of shelter?

LeStryge wrote:

So what are all those saplings?
I'm guessing they are used as tent poles for some kind of shelter?

More likely poles for the camouflage net, as proper cam net poles would be a pain to parachute drop. Much simpler to improvise.

Kimono Troop Command wrote:

More likely poles for the camouflage net, as proper cam net poles would be a pain to parachute drop.  Much simpler to improvise.  

Unless you're being dropped in a desert zone...? Iraq, or Afghanistan perhaps?
Surely the army could come up with some poles that break into smaller sections for the task?
After all, you are dropping a huge cannon!

SCU_HQ wrote:

Wow! A real life GI Joe Adventure Team vehicle!

Yeah, really cool pic, Nate!!!

Thanks for posting it.

LeStryge wrote:

Kimono Troop Command wrote:

More likely poles for the camouflage net, as proper cam net poles would be a pain to parachute drop.  Much simpler to improvise.  

Unless you're being dropped in a desert zone...? Iraq, or Afghanistan perhaps?
Surely the army could come up with some poles that break into smaller sections for the task?
After all, you are dropping a huge cannon!

I am quite positive that those are cam net poles, and not meant as tent poles. The bell tents used by the British Army are similar to those of the Canadian Army and use only a single, collapsible central pole, usually made of a magnesium alloy. it is much sturdier than any of those branches, none of which could support a tent, but all of which could serve to support the corners of a cam net, or in the case of the longest one, the center of the net which always uses a longer pole. We frequently used a long branch also as a central cam net pole in the towed artillery units of the Canadian army.