This weapon is percussion fired, air-cooled, and hand-fed. It has a single barrel and complex recoil system. Rate of fire depends on crew efficiency.

This weapon is percussion fired, air-cooled, and hand-fed. It has a single barrel and complex recoil system. Rate of fire depends on crew efficiency.

• A. GAU-23 (30mm)
• B. M2 Browning
• C. M102 (105mm)
• D. M134 Minigun

Answer: (C)

Think of a weapon where loading is done by hand, shell by shell, into a single-barrel gun that uses a sturdy recoil system to manage the recoil of each shot. The rate at which you fire depends largely on how quickly the crew can prepare, load, and fire each round. That exactly describes a light towed 105mm howitzer like the M102: it’s air-cooled, breech-loaded, and hand-fed, with a complex recoil mechanism to keep the gun stable and ready for the next shot. Since the ammunition comes in manual rounds and charges, the crew’s efficiency governs how fast rounds can be fired in succession. The other options involve automatic or multi-barrel systems or different feed mechanisms that don’t match this manual, single-barrel, crew-dependent profile.

Think of a weapon where loading is done by hand, shell by shell, into a single-barrel gun that uses a sturdy recoil system to manage the recoil of each shot. The rate at which you fire depends largely on how quickly the crew can prepare, load, and fire each round. That exactly describes a light towed 105mm howitzer like the M102: it’s air-cooled, breech-loaded, and hand-fed, with a complex recoil mechanism to keep the gun stable and ready for the next shot. Since the ammunition comes in manual rounds and charges, the crew’s efficiency governs how fast rounds can be fired in succession. The other options involve automatic or multi-barrel systems or different feed mechanisms that don’t match this manual, single-barrel, crew-dependent profile.