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Originally Posted by Don Boose
Outstanding work on those secondary turrets and guns.
They look like 1-inch aiming rifles or devices for crew training. See this discussion: https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/...e-what-was-it/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-caliber_training
About 70 years ago, when I was a platoon leader in a rifle company, our 81mm mortar crews used subcaliber devices with similar ballistic characteristics to the mortars for training, and the 106mm recoilless rifles were fitted with sub-caliber aiming rifles that fired tracer rounds.
Don |
As always, your expertise is appreciated Don. The link you provided was informative, and referenced their use on large naval guns.