yantaylor wrote:Hi Clive, I checked out that link, but I am still lacking some key stuff, here is what I have done so far, the question marks are for gaps in the data;
Ordnance QF 95mm Infantry Howitzer
Year: 1944.
Type: Infantry Support Howitzer
Origin & Make: . ????????????????????????
Total: 700 or 800.???????????????????????
Crew: 6.
Calibre: 95mm L/.?????????????????????????
Barrel Length: 2.17m.
Length of Weapon: m. ????????????????????????????
Elevation: -5° to +30°.
Traverse: 8°.
Carriage: Box Trail.
Breech: . ???????????????
Sights: .????????????????????????????
Shell Weight: HE kg????????????????????????????????????
Muzzle Velocity: 330 m/s
Weight in Action: 945 kg
Maximum Range: HE 7.315m.
Rate of Fire: 7 rpm.
Traction: Motorised (Jeep). ???????????????????
Regards
Yan.
This never went into service as a towed equipment. Who cares whether 700 or 800 were in different stages of completion before being scrapped
The Wikipedia mentions some of the organisational and logistic issues of an infantry howitzer that I have already posted.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_ ... m_howitzer
This equipment did enter service as armament for CS Tanks - see countless threads on this topic. Despite the wargamer enthusiasm for CS tanks, the firepower available to the FOO was far more use in most circumstances. The 95mm gun had its finest hour -almost literally, on D Day when 80 CS variants of the Centaur were used as a single use assault gun brigade to add close support for the assault landings. After D Day itself the performance of the RMASG Centaurs illustrated the limitations of this Infantry Howitzer. The range was little more than half that of the 25 pounder, so less flexible and the trajectory was too flat to be much use in the counter mortar role.
The British had plenty of armour to support infantry and no Guderian inspired hang ups about concentrating all the tanks in armoured divisions. The British did not need to invent the Stug to bypass the RAC. If British infantry needed to take out a bunker, the could have called on a gun tank or a CS tank or an AVRE.