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Old 07-30-2015, 01:52 PM
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Originally Posted by swaghauler View Post
This seems a more realistic speed of traverse to me. I was shocked at the speeds I was being quoted in the forums and seeing posted on Youtube videos. That's why I'm asking all of you about this. The M109 Paladin HIP had a fully automatic traverse but it was only about 45 Degrees a second in Deflection and 15 Degrees a second in elevation. Our older M109A2's (what I trained on in basic/AIT) had a traverse that was similar to your Bradly's.
I was a gunner on a M2A2 a long long time ago, and I seem to remember a 6 second 360 time, which is 60deg/sec. Some sources online back me up, but Im old and fuzzy now so I may be wrong.
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