JeffersLos Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Thais know best. They don't need to follow training or procedures. I hope their flip flops are okay. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herfiehandbag Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 3 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said: The Oto Melara 76mm gun is an unmanned unit and is sighted and fired remotely. However, without details the reason why the gun discharged is unknown. What can be said with surety is that the gun should have been unloaded and made safe before docking. They must have been close to each other (the ships) when it happened. Certainly land artillery pieces (and I have no doubt naval canon are similar) have a system known as setback - basically the sudden acceleration when fired, together with the spinning imparted by the rifling arms the fuze on the shell; setback prevents it exploding when in or just after it leaving the barrel, typically not until it has been in flight for oh, 50 metres or so. This makes life better for the crew, for whom a muzzle premature as the shell explodes on leaving the barrel is a distressing experience. The shell fuze was not armed, otherwise there would have been a much bigger bang and not much left of HTMS Khirirat!¹ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herfiehandbag Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 3 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said: The Oto Melara 76mm gun is an unmanned unit and is sighted and fired remotely. However, without details the reason why the gun discharged is unknown. What can be said with surety is that the gun should have been unloaded and made safe before docking. They must have been close to each other (the ships) when it happened. Certainly land artillery pieces (and I have no doubt naval canon are similar) have a system known as setback - basically the sudden acceleration when fired, together with the spinning imparted by the rifling arms the fuze on the shell; setback prevents it exploding when in or just after it leaving the barrel, typically not until it has been in flight for oh, 50 metres or so. This makes life better for the crew, for whom a muzzle premature as the shell explodes on leaving the barrel is a distressing experience. The shell fuze was not armed, otherwise there would have been a much bigger bang and not much left of HTMS Khirirat!¹ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herfiehandbag Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 3 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said: The Oto Melara 76mm gun is an unmanned unit and is sighted and fired remotely. However, without details the reason why the gun discharged is unknown. What can be said with surety is that the gun should have been unloaded and made safe before docking. They must have been close to each other (the ships) when it happened. Certainly land artillery pieces (and I have no doubt naval canon are similar) have a system known as setback - basically the sudden acceleration when fired, together with the spinning imparted by the rifling arms the fuze on the shell; setback prevents it exploding when in or just after it leaving the barrel, typically not until it has been in flight for oh, 50 metres or so. This makes life better for the crew, for whom a muzzle premature as the shell explodes on leaving the barrel is a distressing experience. The shell fuze was not armed, otherwise there would have been a much bigger bang and not much left of HTMS Khirirat!¹ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herfiehandbag Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 3 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said: The Oto Melara 76mm gun is an unmanned unit and is sighted and fired remotely. However, without details the reason why the gun discharged is unknown. What can be said with surety is that the gun should have been unloaded and made safe before docking. They must have been close to each other (the ships) when it happened. Certainly land artillery pieces (and I have no doubt naval canon are similar) have a system known as setback - basically the sudden acceleration when fired, together with the spinning imparted by the rifling arms the fuze on the shell; setback prevents it exploding when in or just after it leaving the barrel, typically not until it has been in flight for oh, 50 metres or so. This makes life better for the crew, for whom a muzzle premature as the shell explodes on leaving the barrel is a distressing experience. The shell fuze was not armed, otherwise there would have been a much bigger bang and not much left of HTMS Khirirat!¹ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
herfiehandbag Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 I'm not sure what has happened here - I mean I think it is quite a good post but I don't know why it "went up" four times! No doubt a mod will be able to sort it out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
findlay13 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 (edited) As I said on another thread,they should rename themselves "F troop'' Edited March 16 by findlay13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgealbert Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 The Navy announce an investigation into the incident and release CCTV of the gun firing. RPReplay_Final1710851887.mov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scorecard Posted March 19 Share Posted March 19 On 3/14/2024 at 6:48 PM, bamnutsak said: I think the RTN cover story will be that they were having a Manhattan Rebellion reenactment. Naah, the admirals birthday bash... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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