Lightgun

[v4forlife]

105mm Lightgun by Wil Collins, on Flickr

 

[Tony S]

Must be one that Canon contracted out to Howitzer to make. Using it as a bounce flash must be a real pain in the hiney for those downrange.

 

[v4forlife]

Wow. Now that was cheesy. Bravo that man...haha

 

[crimbfighter]

Pretty cool! I think it captures the moment quite well. Though it's hard for me to NOT think about the hearing damage going on here....

Was this a training exercise?

 

[Gavjenks]

It's not a light gun, it's a dark sucker.

 

[v4forlife]

Nope, this was a fire mission out in afghan. These rounds were the only HE(High Explosive) rounds fired that tour, by my gun pos. This is a 5 second exposure set up on a gorrilapod.

 

[timor]

Nope, this was a fire mission out in afghan. These rounds were the only HE(High Explosive) rounds fired that tour, by my gun pos.

Are we permitted to see this picture ? What else one can fire over there from howitzer than HE ?

 

[v4forlife]

The only things we fire are HE, black illum(to light up the night, but with IR for night scopes) white illum(same as black, but visible by the naked eye) and just charges for ceremonial purposes.

 

[timor]

Ah... Illumination. That might be good for photography ?

 

[tirediron]

Nope, this was a fire mission out in afghan. These rounds were the only HE(High Explosive) rounds fired that tour, by my gun pos. This is a 5 second exposure set up on a gorrilapod.

Ah loves me a good HE shoot!

 

[v4forlife]

Yea, it would be good, but we are firing up to 18km away...so if you can get that, you're a better man than me. haha