Wesy Posted January 21, 2001 Share Posted January 21, 2001 I'm baffled...How do you convert UK weapons (ie. 2 Pounders etc.) into the metric scale? I just thought about it this morning, and from what i've remembered the description has a correllation to the actual weight of the shell. Is this true? ------------------ "Lack of weapons is no excuse for defeat" - Lt. General Renya Mutaguchi, Commanding General, Japanese Fifteenth Army, 1944-1945 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gremlin Posted January 21, 2001 Share Posted January 21, 2001 Yes. Don't remember the equivalents off hand though. ------------------ When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans. --Marcus Aurelius Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jarmo Posted January 21, 2001 Share Posted January 21, 2001 The pounder system means, take a lead ball that just fit's into the barrell of 2 pounder gun. The lead ball weighs 2 pounds. Same for other pounders. So there's no way to convert by any calculation. But: 2pdr = 40mm 6pdr = 57mm There's a FAQ hidden somewhere in internet, the rest are there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted January 21, 2001 Share Posted January 21, 2001 A 17 pounder like those found on the Fireflies are 76mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PawBroon Posted January 21, 2001 Share Posted January 21, 2001 Don't forget to divide by 6.55957 to have the pounder converted to French Euros. Then substract the average PSI of your AFVs. You can't get more complicated. But then they won't do metrics in the first place... ------------------ You are not Obsessive-CMpulsive, you are Allied-Retentive. Mark IV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew_Ridgeway Posted January 21, 2001 Share Posted January 21, 2001 http://www.wargamer.org/GvA/weapons/britain.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
109 Gustav Posted January 21, 2001 Share Posted January 21, 2001 And 25 pounder = 88mm ------------------ Well my skiff's a twenty dollar boat, And I hope to God she stays afloat. But if somehow my skiff goes down, I'll freeze to death before I drown. And pray my body will be found, Alaska salmon fishing, boys, Alaska salmon fishing. -Commercial fishing in Kodiak, Alaska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailor Malan Posted January 22, 2001 Share Posted January 22, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by 109 Gustav: And 25 pounder = 88mm <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Yes, but not THAT 88mm!! (Although the 25lber was the best British AT gun in the desert in 1940-41 (only competing against the 2pder, which is good, but not that good for its size). I am waiting for the doorknocker to be the main German AT gun in the early war CM's !! Wont that be fun everybody ------------------ The conception of such a plan was impossible for a man of Montgomery's innate caution...In fact, Montgomery's decision to mount the operation ...[Market Garden] was as startling as it would have been for an elderly and saintly Bishop suddenly to decide to take up safe breaking and begin on the Bank of England. (R.W.Thompson, Montgomery the Field Marshall) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Boot Posted January 22, 2001 Share Posted January 22, 2001 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Matthew_Ridgeway: http://www.wargamer.org/GvA/weapons/britain.html <HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Nice site:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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