Can Hear Artillery shells flying?

casshern SG

maybe abit noobish but can we actually hear the arty shells flying thru the skys when it's over us? like those whistling or what?

cos i remember BMT got one crap drill that made us run like mad. think arty drill or something.

what about InterContinental Ballistic Misslies or anything thing of that sort? will we actually be able to hear them whizz by?

nightzip SG

YESH!....ask those who did arty live firing...

but you dun actually hear "whiee..." its just the feeling that something fly past....and its scary if its flying over your head! Shocked Very Happy

casshern SG

haha…. i tot it’s like movies, can actually hear the whizzing.

huaichien SG

Do artillery shells fly supersonic? If so, will there be a sonic boom?

Moonstriker SG

like no?

Actually u can hear the "whizzzzz" only if u are in very close proximity below its flight path. And yea.. its very scary indeed...

zanshin SG

i have been thru arty live firing, the sound is not a "whizzz" but more like "zhe-zhe-zhe-zhe" very rapidly.

If i am not wrong mortar shells have "whee" sound, but i really do not know.

arty shell speed at low charge is 300+ m/s (which is around speed of sound), but it can go much faster at higher charge, 600+ m/s is common.

however some people hears a ringing sound because they forget to cover their ears when the gun fires Laughing

laurence82 SG

once i watch some ST videos on the arty shells

apparently the zhe zhe zhe sound happened when the arty shells hit the ground..

well, its the video..

khyron1 SG

Yes, you can hear it esp. large calibre ones but usually at the last moment.

As for ICBMs...you'd already be part of the air pollution by the time the sound arrives as ICBMs travel at Mach 6+ (could be much more)