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2004-10-31 Iraq-Jordan

ARMORED WARFARE: 120mm Ammo for Urban Warfare

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Posted by Anonymoose 2004-10-31 4:25:22 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It's funny how cannons have evolved and superficially devolved with time. From olde time smoothbore to rifled, to smoothbore. Now grapeshot's getting a second wind! What next - chain shot? Muzzle loading?! Heh.

Posted by Bulldog 2004-10-31 5:48:34 PM|| 2004-10-31 5:48:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Load the langrel-shot! Fire when ready....

Posted by Sheik Abu Bin Ali Al-Yahood 2004-10-31 6:32:50 PM|| 2004-10-31 6:32:50 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Can we load up and fire lawyers whose election challenges prove to be baseless?

Call it shitshot... I have no idea what effect it would have on structures, etc., but that's what a testing program is for.

Posted by .com 2004-10-31 6:38:24 PM|| 2004-10-31 6:38:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Excellent idea .com. Sort of a conventional neutron bomb. The smell would be so bad occupants of a building would exit with both hands over their noses. But it's probably a Geneva violation.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2004-10-31 6:46:30 PM|| 2004-10-31 6:46:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 containing 1100 10mm tungsten balls, that can kill or wound at up to 700 meters ...

Hell, a single M1028 round has more balls than the entire Arab street combined.

Posted by Zenster 2004-10-31 9:14:20 PM|| 2004-10-31 9:14:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 .com, The only problem is that it would be considered a WMD.....

I say we go for it anyway.

Posted by CrazyFool 2004-10-31 9:17:48 PM|| 2004-10-31 9:17:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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