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Ssnake
11-01-2002, 08:30 PM
http://www.panzerbaer.de/images/bw_pzh_155mm_m109_schalldaempfer_wtd_meppen-001.JPG

No fake. Reduces disturbance for the neighborhood by court rule.
chrisotto
11-01-2002, 08:49 PM
That is really one way to fire a shell.

Especially the whole aiming procedure...

:(
Chaplain
11-01-2002, 08:59 PM
I see they camoflaged it. Is that so they can use it during a war? :D An artillery silencer might improve OPSEC a bit.

Seriously, through, the US Army has used a silencer for the Bushmaster on the Bradley for some time because of noise complaints around certain bases. I just can't remember if it was in Germany or somewhere in the US where they came up with the idea.
Dewman
11-01-2002, 11:03 PM
Now let me get this right> As far as I know the Arty bases have been there for a lot of years. some idiot buys a house near it and guess what the noise bothers him :D
Thought I would never live to see it all but I was wrong .
Ssnake
11-01-2002, 11:18 PM
The guys over at SimHQ are right: It does look like straight from the inventory of Dr. Evil...
http://www.boardy.de/images/smilies/megasmile.gif
chrisotto
11-02-2002, 12:08 AM
And I shall call it a "Silencer".

Friggin' Arty with Silencer's.

That's generally something that happens all the time - people buy a house next to an airport (it's cheaper, of course), then they wonder all the time, why it's noisy. Next thing they start a resistance group and try to close the airport. Great.

In this case even, you cannot fire the tube all day long; it costs a lot to fire a battery all afternoon, a good Porsche Carrera 4 or so...
9erRed
11-02-2002, 10:01 PM
Had a similar thing happen just outside of the city Moncton. Have had a small arms Range there since WW2, Regular and Reserve both use it. So some land developer about 20yrs ago starts buying and selling off all the land around the Range to a subdivision builder. Quess what .... now they want to close the range because its too noisy. And someone could get shot, right and a car could back over them to. I don't hear them complaning about the highway noise, being 400mtrs from the Transcanada highway. ( 2 lanes, both directions) And thier all outside the shot template and the range is heavely fenced off. Ps: the next closest range is an hour away. (Gagetown) as opposed to 10mins from city.
Just my oponion
9erRed.....
Edgecrusher
11-02-2002, 11:15 PM
Wow, look at it. Can anyone else say phallic?

It would make a neat model.
Boof
11-03-2002, 12:04 AM
Sounds like the city people around me that buy up land from a Farmer, Develope a huge subdivison, Have abunch of Yuppies and D.I.N.Ks buy and build Million $ homes so they can live in the "Country".

They then complain about the smell, flies and noise of the nearby farms that have been there for a hundred years....

I wonder if one of those silencers can be filled with charcoal and fitted to the backside of a heard of cows???
Lone*star49
11-03-2002, 12:15 AM
[quote]

I wonder if one of those silencers can be filled with charcoal and fitted to the backside of a heard of cows???

Boof.. you gave me a thought.. this could be the ultiment DUNG Cannon... the most effective "legal" Bio-Weapon known to "modern man".. :present: to all that tresspass against you... :P
Hackworth
11-04-2002, 12:00 AM
Arty-silencer is such an oxymoron... I bet it does nothing for the impact ranges though :D Or do the rounds have silencers attached as well *poof* instead of BOOM.

For me personally, this is afront to my Red Leg background ;)

Regarding its use in a combat environemt (i.e., it's camoflagued): It doesn't look too mobile does it? The M109 is slow enough as it is. Could you imagine trying to move that big set of balls and a d*ck along with it? :D
Edgecrusher
11-04-2002, 04:48 AM
The new silenced shells are filled with "Hushaboom".
chrisotto
11-04-2002, 09:52 AM
Maybe that's how the Germans get rid of their duds.

When I remember hearing the clean up team blowing the duds on our target hill for the first time, all that C4 going BOOM, I though someone was aerial bombing it...
Ssnake
11-04-2002, 06:54 PM
It's a stationary setup at a testing range in Meppen, Westfalia. Since they fire the guns regularly there and in only one direction at predefined angles, it makes some sense to install it.
jeroen
11-04-2002, 08:32 PM
Will this be in SB2? ;)
LEAF56
11-04-2002, 08:39 PM
Will this be in SB2? ;)

[Edited on 4/11/2002 by jeroen]

Itīs on the last page of the "List" ;)
Edgecrusher
11-05-2002, 01:57 AM
Is it compatible with the PZH 2000?
Ssnake
11-05-2002, 10:12 AM
Given the need for the "testicles" to swallow the gases redicrected from the muzzlebrake, I'd say no. The PzH2000 has a three-directional muzzle brake, and I think that one direction is to the top, and the other two sidewards/down.