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Originally Posted by Albany Rifles
105mm APERS-T story
He then calls out to the gun crew prpeare the APERS. They brought the round out on a frickin' pillow! The FA guys in our class are all snickering at this point cause they know what's about to happen. The FA Major points out the infantry sillouettes about 100 meters in front of said gun. Theyt do all of the fire commands and he has a big crap eating grin on his face as he looks at us and then smirks, knowing he going to show us lowly earth pigs the true God of Battle. BANG goes the gun and we all watch as the tracer zings between the targets, hit a mound and ricochets into the impact area. We all start laughing and he never knows why. Gun captain looked sheepish and the FA captians in our group looked embarassed. 
We grunts may be stupid but we know how to set a fuze!  |
Fuze wasn't set wrong. It malfunctioned.
The M564 APERS-T round comes packaged with fuse attached. The fuze is set for MA at the factory. All we have to do is load and shoot. They sort of figured that if we are shooting those, we might not have time to set fuzes
And the case is thin walled and easy to damage so they try to keep handling to a minimum.