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Looney11 · 02-02-07, 04:41 AM

My guess is, that at present, the gun fires ordinary "dumb" projectiles. It fires metal slugs like our great-great-great ancestors used on their old wooden ships

. With a ballistic trajectory, this makes for hitting a speedy missile neigh impossible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otobreda_76_mm gives you a look at the oto-breda 76mm naval gun used on a lot of naval vessels.

As you can see, it can carry a meriad of different types of ammo:
- HE
- AP
- Training (lead-slugs)
- Proximity fuses / Timed fuzes / impact fuzes
- Incendiary
- AA

From what I recall from my naval years is that types of fuzes can be switched to match the task at hand. I believe this is done manually and not common practice.

For the 76mm in DW I'd love to see AA / Proximty rounds/fuzes so you can effectively engage airborne targets.

Proximity fuzes -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze

02-02-07, 04:41 AM	#10
Looney11 Watch Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Netherlands Posts: 23 Downloads: 14 Uploads: 0	My guess is, that at present, the gun fires ordinary "dumb" projectiles. It fires metal slugs like our great-great-great ancestors used on their old wooden ships . With a ballistic trajectory, this makes for hitting a speedy missile neigh impossible. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otobreda_76_mm gives you a look at the oto-breda 76mm naval gun used on a lot of naval vessels. As you can see, it can carry a meriad of different types of ammo: - HE - AP - Training (lead-slugs) - Proximity fuses / Timed fuzes / impact fuzes - Incendiary - AA From what I recall from my naval years is that types of fuzes can be switched to match the task at hand. I believe this is done manually and not common practice. For the 76mm in DW I'd love to see AA / Proximty rounds/fuzes so you can effectively engage airborne targets. Proximity fuzes -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_fuze __________________ Those who aim at nothing, will most certainly hit that!