Dimensions no, and the operating pressure of the guns is static regardless of the rounds as they used charges vs cased rounds like smaller caliber guns. The charges used would the be same ones used for every other shell fired by the howitzers, the only tangible difference would be the performance of the round in flight.
Said charge bags.
The only naval 203mm components you could not put through one of the ground based guns would be the charge cases used on the Des Moines class CAs as they used brass cased rounds rather than charge bags like normal 203mm guns, however, the shells on those ships were still useable as they are just the same standard 203mm rounds on all other USN CAs at the time and are not mated to a case.
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I am more looking foward to the M110A2 the ROC Variants.
I forgot they used charge bags, in that case you probably should be able to use naval AP rounds or the other 8 inch AP rounds mentioned
Ye, still will have vastly different performance, but there is indeed nothing stopping them from being fired.
Funniest part about this is that such interchanabliity is even finding it’s way into the currently ongoing conflict, with the Russian 2S7 firing old US naval stock 203mm rounds and old army 203mm HE rounds.
If it fits, it yeets, if you are using a two piece ammo set.
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who needs AP rounds vs Tanks, when you can have a 203mm HE round?
aphe with enough filler to overpressure can be much more reliable than pure HE, and lets you shoot though fences and other minor obstacles
many 150mm+ guns in tanks only uses HE, and they still got a lot of punch, because of the amount of explosive.
at 6.0, a 203mm HE round would deal pretty easily every tanks.
however, and hear me out, 203mm aphe would be funny
yes it would but it would detonate on bushes too, and pure HE is not good against case mate tank destroyers
Good god it is…
i was thinking of the M53
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I believe it will play just like any other howitzer in-game: pure offensive force but no defensive capabilities, at the best of scenarios a support vehicle with very situational applicance. But I personally like huge caliber cannons, I hope I have the chance to play and have some fun moments shooting a bomb directly into a tank or whatever dares stay in my sights.
I don’t think that is true - a heavier round will accelerate slower for a given propulsion charge, leading to higher barrel pressures than a lighter round.
also nature of driving band interaction with rifling can make quite a difference to performance.
I don’t know the characteristics of these for the 2 guns/ammunitions in question, but they do matter.
That is why I stated that SHS rounds would probably be out of the question, but even with such in mind, the M115 was capable of firing it’s nuclear rounds which weighed 110kg without issue, all standard 8 inch USN projectiles weighed 118kg, a 8 kg difference, if using the same charge designed for the army’s howitzers should not be a issue.
It should be noted that the 8 inch gun M1 actually produced a higher MV than it’s naval counterparts and the army outright fielded 8 inch naval guns taken from ships scrapped under the WNT as costal guns, using said same standard naval rounds for said coastal guns.
Such is also not even a theme restricted to the 8 inch guns, as the army procured a myriad of calibers from the USN during WW2 and utilized naval rounds and ord across their portfolio.
There would be no reason to have different designs here, nor do they have them, its a simple copper seal band, such has been the standard for years up to that point and still is to this day, there is little if any reason to change such unless the round is saboted, and such is very much so not the case here.
We don’t have any ingame conventional artillery bigger than 155mm do we?
Should be interesting
