Here are the last four albums of our photos from the, now defunct, Military Vehicle Technology Foundation of Portola Valley, CA. They are Daimler Dingo Scout Car, Panhard M3 VTT, V-2 Tank Engine and Japanese 105mm Type 92 Howitzer.
Last of the MVTF
Tag: artillery
National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy
Here are several albums from the National Museum of the Royal New Zealand Navy in Auckland, NZ. We’ve photographed the US 20mm Oerlikon Anti-Aircraft Gun, British 4″ Mk IX Naval Gun on the Mk. I Mount, Japanese 14cm/40 11th Year Type naval gun salvaged from the sunk Japanese I-1 submarine and Stereoscopic Spotting Binoculars.
Last of the Battleship Cove
Continuing to clean up older un-posted walkarounds we posted the last five albums from the Battleship Cove in Fall River, Massachusetts. They are GIMIK special forces insertion boat, Soviet FAM-14 Strela 2 (SA-N-5) surface-to-air missile launcher, Soviet 76mm AK-176 Naval Gun Mount, Soviet 30mm AK-630 Naval Gun Mount and US 5″/25 Mark 40 Submarine Gun.
Tanks from APG and Patton Museum
Doing some clean up, here are some very old walkarounds that were done at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds and Patton museum before the move. Here are the photos of PzKpfw I, T96 prototype, SdKfz 142/2 StuH III and Nordenfelt Machine Gun.
Last of the Aquino Tank Weekend
Here are the last five albums from the Aquino Tank Weekend 2017. They are M60A3, V-100 Commando, Canadian QF 25pdr Mark II Field Gun and Trailer Artillery No.27 Mark I/L for it, as well as Canadian Service Bicycle Mark IV.
Fort Rodd-Hill
Here are three albums with the photos from the Canadian coast defense Fort Rodd-Hill in Esquimalt, BC. The photos are of the fortifications of the Fort Rodd-Hill, as well as British Hotchkiss 6-pdr and QF 6-pounder 10 CWT Gun.
New artillery albums
Here are four new artillery walkarounds. Two of them are from South Carolina Military Museum – the Spanish 18pdr Fortress Cannon and the German 10.5 cm leFH 16 Field Howitzer and two more are from Saumur – the Italian Obice da 75mm/18 Modello 35 and the French 47mm SA37 Anti-Tank Gun.
HMCS Haida
Here are the photos of the museum ship – destroyer HMCS Haida (DDE-215) located in Hamilton, ON, Canada. In addition to the ship itself here are the photos of various armaments from the ship – Quad Torpedo Launcher with Mk.IX Torpedoes, 4-inch/45 Mk.16 Twin Naval Mount, 40mm Mark VII Bofors Anti-Aircraft Mount and 40-mm QF2 Mk. VIII Single Anti-Aircraft Mount.
New softskins
Here are four new softskin albums taken at various VMCC Camp Delta events. They are 1942 Chevrolet Truck, M151A2 MUTT, Ford GPW and US 155mm M114A2 Howitzer on M1A1 Carriage.
Guns of Fort Rodd Hill
In this update we have added the various artillery pieces that are displayed on the grounds of the Canadian Fort Rodd-Hill in Esquimalt, BC. The guns that were added are US 90mm M1A2 Anti-Aircraft Gun, British 13-pdr RML Field Gun and British 12pdr QF Coast Defense Gun.
Last of the Military Museum of Southern New England
Here are the last albums from the, now unfortunately defunct, Military Museum of Southern New England, that used to be located in Danbury, CT. The albums are Ba-64 and M8 Greyhound armored cars, SdKfz 302 Goliath demolition vehicle and a 10cm Nebelwerfer 35 mortar.
Artillery pieces from four different countries
Here are four artillery pieces from four different countries and three continents. From Auckland, NZ comes the British RML 7″ 7-ton Coast Defense Gun displayed near Auckland War Memorial Museum, from Paris, France we’ve added the French 75mm Mle 1897 Field Gun located in Musée de l’Armée, from US here is the US 81mm M1 Mortar from now defunct Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury, CT and finally from Canada – British Q.F. 40 mm Mk.1 Bofors Anti-Aircraft Gun at Fort Rodd-Hill in Esquimalt.
Artillery update
Here are four different artillery pieces – the US 13″ Mortar from White Point Gardens in Charleston, SC, the British 1″ Nordenfelt gun photographed in the Tower of London, the 4.7″ Armstrong Coast Defense Gun currently residing in Newport, RI and the Nebelwerfer 41 15-cm photographed during an even in Richmond, CA.
Fort Hancock
Here is a set of photos taken at Fort Hancock in NJ. We’ve posted the photos of the remains of the coast defense batteries from there as well as US 6in Model 1900 coast defense gun and MIM-3 Nike Ajax missile on display at the fort grounds.
US Artillery from South Carolina Military Museum
Today’s artillery post is about US artillery photographed at the South Carolina Military Museum in Columbia, SC. The artillery pieces are a US 6-pdr Battalion Gun, a US 3″ Ordinance Rifle, a US 3″ Model 1905 Field Gun and a US 3″ M1897A2 Field Gun.
Two from France and two from New Zealand
Here are four new artillery albums from two different countries. Two guns from the France are the German 7.7cm Feldkanone 96 and the Soviet 120-HM 38 120mm Mortar, both from the Musée de l’Armée in Paris. The two from New Zealand were photographed in Auckland – British 64pdr RML Coast-Defense Gun and Japanese 13.2mm Type 93 Anti-Aircraft Machine Gun from Auckland War Museum.
Artillery from across the world
Here are four different artillery pieces from different places in the world. From Batey ha-Osef Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel we have a Soviet S-23 180mm Gun, from Musee des Blindes in Saumur, France we posted a German 2cm Flakvierling 38 Anti-Aircraft Gun, from Sydney, Australia we added the photos of the German 105mm SK/L40 Naval Gun that was removed from the wreck of SMS Emden and finally from Military Museum of Southern New England in Danbury, CT in US comes a US 106mm M40 Recoilless Rifle.
Naval update
Today we’ll have a naval themed update from Battleship Cove in Massachusetts. While the main ships from there have already been posted to our gallery, here are four smaller items from there – Soviet Tarantula class missile boat USNS Hiddensee, Higgins LCM(3) landing craft, 570mm Mark13 Mod 1 Torpedo and a US 20mm/70 Oerlikon anti-aicraft gun.
Softskins
Continuing to dig through the archives of the un-posted stuff here are four albums done a number of years ago at MVCC Camp Delta. The albums are – M35 with M105 bed, Dodge WC19, GMC Canada 1942 India Pattern LRDG Truck and M55 .50 caliber Quad-mount.
Artillery from around the world
Posted four different artillery albums from four different countries. From Russia, posted the Tsar Pushka, photographed in Moscow’s Kremlin, from Belgium added the 75mm Cockerill-Nordenfeld Mle 1896 Field Gun seen in Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels, from Australia came the British QF 25pdr Mark II Field Gun photographed in a town of Cann River and finally from US added the 8″ Rifled Dahlgren Cannon on a Naval Mount that was found at Patriots Point Museum in Charleston SC.