57mm video

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[lmuldowney]

OK,
I do not know if this is going to work or not but here it goes.
This is the first time a 57mm was discharged on any US vessel.

[vftb]

Worked great, looks good 

[BuoyJumper]

KEWELL LARRY ... Love seeing that video of the 57mm in action.  Congrats to you and the rest of the team.  

[mike220]

Sweet... 

[ronone]

Larry,

Do they not fire at each of the 120 degree quadrants to test hold down clips anymore?  Does it have hold down clips?

Where does the brass go?  I didn't see any on deck.   

Also 57mm guns were fired from U. S. vessels during the Spanish-American War.  The 57 mm/43cal. quick-fire Nordenfeldt gun  aboard the Antonio Lopez (Spainish Navy) was the one that killed five and wounded four onboard the  Torpedo Boat USS Winslow.  If you recall Winslow was save by the RCS Steamer Hudson.   In fact, the 6-pounder Hotchkiss Hudson fired at the Spainards was 57mm.

The Coast Guard has a history of using a 57mm, just about a century apart.   If the Coast Guard runs true to history, it will abandon the 57mm for a larger gun and then a smaller one of more rapid fire.  It went from the 6-pounder to the slow fire 4-inch, to the rapid fire 3", to the 5"/25 & 5"/38 to the 76mm to the 57mm.   Things never change. 

[lmuldowney]

GMCM,
Ok you got me on the history. Let me put it this way. The gun mount on the BErtholf is a BOFORS MK110 57mm gun. The serial number on that gun is 001. THe BErhtolf is the first US vessel to fir it. There are two other ships with this gun on it in the US fleet. LCS1 , and LCS 2 both of which are not close to being shot.

The STF for the gun has not been done yet. They will be done after the CG takes delivery of the BERTHOLF.

The falls in the front of the gun mount.

I hope you enjoy the video. The originial video is ALOT longer and my ET1 and ET2 spent a lot of time getting it rto the quality it is now.
Larry

[LTGunner]

The 57mm Mk 110 Mod 0 Gun Mount ejects the spent cases at the bottom of the front of the gun:



Photo credit: NavWeaps

This short clip shows the empty cases being ejected during a test fire at the Potomac River test range in Dahlgren, VA:

[ronone]

Larry,

Thanks, I couldn't see the cases in the other video.   Still not like the hot caseman with those asbestos gloves.

We has a hot caseman on the 3"/50 who jumped slightly backwards with each shot.  We were shooting a Z-27-G at GTMO and I was the mount captain.  During the shoot he kept tapping me on the shoulder going "hey man" and shouted back just catch the cases.   When the run was over and we secured the gun he took off his right glove and the blood was flowing from his fingers.   He has jumped back once and caught the case up against the depression rail.   

He looked at me and I at he.  I then turned to the gun crew and asked then all what was the word used to stop the shoot. In unison, they called out "SILENCE!'"

Seaman Salcedo, a former Marine, looked at me and said "you're a tough *******."   I then got the HM to set his broken fingers.  We did ace the shoot.  Good thing it was our last shoot.  I would have had to train another hot caseman.

I don't doubt the MK110 will be okay as an interium.  The Coast Guard has a history of interium gun systems and being cheap about them.