155mm Artillery

Kugelblitz · Post by **Kugelblitz** » 06 Sep 2003 06:24

Anyone have info about the 155mm Long Tom (images, stats, scale drawings)

David Lehmann · Post by **David Lehmann** » 12 Sep 2003 20:18

It is a US variant developped on basis of the French 155mm GPF gun illustrated here and introduced in 1917.

I can for the moment provide info about the French 155mm GPF :

Canon de 155 mm GPF (Grande Puissance Fillioux)
Type : Field gun
Crew : 10 men
Caliber : 155 mm
Weight in action : 11200 kg
ROF : 2 rpm
HE Shell :
Max. Range : 18600 m
Proj. Wt : 44.9 kg
MV : 735 m.s-1
Adopted by the US Army (like the French 75mm Mle1897) and later modified to give rise to the155 mm Long Tom

http://209.165.152.119/panama/155.html

http://www.ftmac.org/155gpf.htm

Long Tom :
http://www.strategyplanet.com/panzergen ... ngtom.html

Regards,

David

Kugelblitz · Post by **Kugelblitz** » 13 Sep 2003 05:24

Thanks for the info. If you have or you know about any scale drawings of the original French version or the modificied Long Tom please tell me.

Regards

David Lehmann · Post by **David Lehmann** » 13 Sep 2003 10:31

You can order it here : http://www.the-belfry.demon.co.uk/
in the French section ... many of my fellows said they do a very good job.

David