Jagdpanther Firing!

[Peter Wiking]

I thought you would like this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov9Ud...eature=related

Make sure your speakers are on loud!

Peter

[Woolgar]

Awesome

Nick

[PanzerJohn]

I was next to the guy who shot that clip, it was one hell of a bang.

[John Henderson]

Thats a great bit of footage.
Sounded loud, going by the reaction.
Thanks for posting it.

r John

[Martin1]

A picture of the offending gun, at that time the original shell casings were still being used.

Martin

[Rich G]

The barrel doesn't appear to recoil. Why's that?

Rich

[PanzerJohn]

Cz nothings coming out of the end of the barrel.

[AndyC]

Thanks for showing



Andy

[Rich G]

Cz nothings coming out of the end of the barrel.

I always thought it was the gases from the discharge that were rerouted to force the recoil. Just goes to show how one can pick up on something incorrect and always believe it is the correct version.

Happens a lot in collecting too.

Rich

[PanzerJohn]

I nicked this from Wikipedia, explains it better then I can!

Recoil (often called kickback or simply kick) is the backward momentum of a gun when it is discharged. In technical terms, the recoil caused by the gun exactly balances the forward momentum of the projectile, according to Newton's third law. In most small arms, the momentum is transferred to the ground through the body of the shooter; while in heavier guns such as mounted machine guns or cannons, the momentum is transferred to the ground through a mounting system.

A change in momentum results in a force, which according to Newton's second law is equal to the time derivative of the momentum of the gun. The momentum is equal to the mass of the gun multiplied by its velocity. This backward momentum is equal in magnitude, by the law of conservation of momentum, to the forward momentum of the ejecta (projectile(s), wad, propellant gases, etc...) from the gun. If the mass and velocity of the ejecta are known, it is possible to calculate a gun’s momentum and thus the energy. In practice, it is often simpler to derive the gun’s energy directly with a reading from a ballistic pendulum or ballistic chronograph

[MikeP]

Was there actually a projectile, live or not?.

If it was just a blank-no projectile, there would be no recoil.

There has to be a build up of pressure behind a projectile before it leaves the tube for recoil to occur.
Otherwise just noise and smoke.

[Rich G]

Thanks guys for the explanation.

Rich

[Daimyo]

It was a blank shot as far as I remember.

[Prinzeugen]

Cool clip, thanks. I was a gunner myself, brings back some memory's.

[Hans Zeug]

Detling show.

This was filmed at the Living History show at Detling a few years ago,it was a rather large blank that was fired, as they say these days it was awesome! This is Mike Gibbs Jagdpanther,the chap who filmed this makes fantastic large scale metal tanks,worth a Goggle to see some. Regards David.