British artillery in action.
 

Sweet picture. I managed to save it to my webspace about 20 seconds before it was yanked from washingtonpost.com's homepage. Sorry it's so small.

http://www.vaporspace.net/~diablos/t...03-20-03Ni.jpg

Nice pic.

So, by posting this are you going to be charged with revealing war secrets?

Here's one slightly bigger (OK, less cropped), I did see one much larger but can't track it down now... Will keep looking

<img src="http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38988000/jpg/_38988685_artillery300.jpg">

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/3...tillery300.jpg

1. Place in ground
2. Keep out of children!
3. Light fuse and get to away place
4. It being shoots flaming balls
5. Enjoy happy flame-time for life-pleasure!!

Hee hee!!!

I just noticed, this picture had to have been incredibly well-timed. It's a flash photograph AND it's taken just as the artillery is fired. Unless there was some sort of trick or extended exposure or something.

The flash was probably discharged, and the shutter left open until the gun fired. No problem to do if dark enough. Or it could have been done in the reverse order, but that would probably depend on how much recoil the gun had (otherwise, the barrel flash would probably not match up with the barrel location in the flash-illuminated shot).

Ahem...

Time exposure. Maybe 1 second (the photographer hears the command to fire).

Easy enough.

Far less than 1 second, I think. Note the lack of motion artifacts; parts of that gun MOVE while it's firing.

Possibly the photo flash was slaved to the muzzle flash.

How about this one? Good timing, take two.


http://www.vaporspace.net/~diablos/t...airjavelin.jpg

That last one might be a screen grab, they we're showing that clip on TV a couple days ago. I know, cuz I single-stepped it with my Tivo. Very cool.

Or maybe the photographer got lucky.

It's called an auto-advance.

Shoot a half a roll of film in a couple seconds, you're bound to get a coupla cool shots out of it.

ahh actually I was thinking along those lines after I posted but didn't know if it was actually used or what the name was and was too lazy to do a search for it.