Photos from the RCA Museum Artillery Collection
The M109 155mm Self-Propelled Howitzer on display was in B Battery, 1 RCHA from 1968 to 2005. This particular gun fired Canada’s first M109 round in 1968 and took part in the final regimental shoot in 2005. The M109 used state-of-the-art technology for a high-intensity, mechanized battlefield during the Cold War in Europe. The M109 […]
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When the Second World War erupted, Canada found itself very ill-equipped for air defence, with only a handful of First World War anti-aircraft (AA) guns on hand. Arrangements were quickly made to purchase 12 M2 Browning .5″ AA machine guns, and a further 16 were leased. The leased guns formed the initial AA defences for
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The M242 Fire Control Mount Trailer was an early warning component of the M33 Anti-Aircraft Fire Control System used by Canada and other NATO countries in the 1950s. The M242 contains the complex AA FCS M33 targeting computer. This computer uses data from the M243 Acquisition Antenna Assembly to track air targets and predict where
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The M-55A 20MM, also known as the Zastava M55, is a Yugoslavian/Serbian triple-barreled automatic anti-aircraft gun. The Crvena Zastava company produced it for the Yugoslav People’s Army. Later versions had an attached generator that provided power traversing and a better computer-assisted sight alignment. The gun is a daylight, clear weather-only system. Multiple variants exist, such
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The M7 Self-Propelled 105mm Howitzer was called the “Priest” by troops because the bulge on the right side, designed as a mount for a machine gun, reminded them of the pulpit in a church. Designed and built in the USA, Priests were used in action by Canadians in Italy and northwest Europe. Ninety-six Canadian Priests
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