105 recoiless

[BOMBSaway1980]

List of 105mm recoiless rounds

HE M323
HEAT M341
HEAT-T M324
HEP-T M326
Smoke M325

 

[US-Subs]

TP? APERS? Subcal?

 

[HAZORD]

There were actually two models of smoke, a preengraved version of the M60, and the newer lightweight version. So Chuck, were you just overcome by the need to share that info?

 

[BOMBSaway1980]

Found an old 105mm recoiless pub and this was the list of approved ammunition for the gun.

 

[BOMBSaway1980]

It does not list a TP sub cal or APERS rounds but it was a short lived system.

 

[HAZORD]

I wasn't familiar with TP or APERS rounds either.

 

[BOMBSaway1980]

The document was from 1969. When was the system retired?

 

[glevum]

It is still in service, but not in the US.

 

[EOD]

The National Guard used to have those after they were phased out by the army.

 

[HAZORD]

The Forest Service uses them in the U.S. for avalanche control. They have also used the 75mm RR for the same thing.

 

[BOMBSaway1980]

I've seen the wp the heat 341, hep and HE but has anybody seen the M324 HEAT-T. Plus if Jeff says there is a TP, APERS and Subcal I'm sure he's correct.

 

[EOD]

Any ammo manuals on these out there?

 

[US-Subs]

When I get some time tonight after work I'll try and pull the numbers off my 105 flechette and check to see what I can dig up on the rest, but no promises for right now. I'm kind of over tasked at the moment, got several thousand pages of rare Japanese info that I have the opportunity to scan, and just received a 24lb box of very rare historic grenade photos and data - all of which needs to be scanned in the next few days. I've got two scanners and computers running non-stop whenever I am not at work. And then I still have the museum photos to get back to work on. I'll try and throw on a couple of example grenade pictures in the next day or two, till then see the two I posted on the other thread - http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/threads/81787-Early-grenade.

 

[Chris]

Has anybody information, drawings, technical info on the 105 mm M326 HEP-T.
I know there is information in the TM 9-1300-203/2 but I don't have that manual.


Regards,

Chris

 

[ordman]

These may help

 

[Fr Cdn AT]

Hello Gents,

Here's what I dig up. Hope this info will be of some help. First, some extract from pub TM-1300-204 from May 1959. Sorry for the quality of scan. More to follow...

Cheers.

Luc.

 

[Fr Cdn AT]

Next extracts are from TM 43-0001-28 from April 1994.

 

[US-Subs]

Here is a flechette model. No stamped markings with the exception of a lot number with a date of 64. Typical steel base with aluminum forward body.

 

[V40]

The Marines used the "Ontos" quite a bit up in Con Thien, Khe Sahn, and especially Hue. Ontos means "thing" in Greek. Was it actually called the 106mm? The Ontos was a six barreled 105/106mm RR on a tank chassis.

 

[Fr Cdn AT]

Wow... Quite a bad a.., mean looking machine I must say!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M50_Ontos

Luc.