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| Iraq |
| SIGNIFICANT WEAPONS CACHE CONFISCATED |
| 2003-12-30 |
| Task Force Ironhorse Second Infantry’s Arrowhead Brigade soldiers discovered a significant weapons cache southeast of Samarra in the morning of Dec. 29. Some of the items located were found in a false wall. The cache consisted of 43 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 79 rocket-propelled grenades, 19 AK-47 assault rifles, one machine gun, one 40mm grenade launcher, six 60mm mortar tubes with base plates, 7,920 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition, more than 160 mortar rounds, 34 100mm BMP rounds, six rifle grenades, 40 82mm fuses, two 40mm grenades, 25 fragmentary grenades, five pounds of artillery propellant, 16 mortar primers, a significant amount of C4 and TNT, one assembled improvised explosive device and materials to make additional devices. Al Qaeda literature and videotapes were also found as well as a British made ceramic body armor plate with a bullet hole. This is an indication that the enemy faction was testing the personal protection plate’s ability to withstand expended anti-personnel ammunition. This is not a good thing. |
| Posted by:Chuck Simmins |
| #4 I know expended means used/fired. What I was thinking about was if they were playing around with expended DU rounds - just the cores - and trying to find a way to use them. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2003-12-30 6:05:51 PM |
| #3 EXPENDED in mil-speak means used, fired. I'm thinking the writer was trying to say; "the bad guys were testing the flak vest's ability to take hits." He's been writing too many press releases. |
| Posted by: Steve 2003-12-30 4:29:45 PM |
| #2 withstand expended anti-personnel ammunition What does expended mean here? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-12-30 2:31:23 PM |
| #1 "This is an indication that the enemy faction was testing the personal protection plate’s ability to withstand expended anti-personnel ammunition." Anybody got a clue what this sentence really means? Particularly the "expended" part? Anti-personnel ammo is the so-called ball ammo, which is unlikely to make it through the composite body armor available. There are a variety of armor piercing (AP) rounds that will penetrate ceramic plate, but it usually takes a .50 cal class round to reliably make it through the combination kevlar/ceramic/steel body armor. Are the brits just using kevlar/ceramic? Any insights? |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2003-12-30 2:22:17 PM |