Posted on 02/28/2012 10:53:42 PM PST by U-238
Muslims are the “best” people on earth.
I’m so glad we have one as president.
Pray for America.
Obozo will probably be ordering a boat load of these from his Komrade Putin in order to blast American dissidents, “haters”, Tea Party radicals, bitter clingers and recalcitrant Kafir out of our bunkers when the time comes.
Is it time yet?
240MM??? that’s huge!!!!
It saw action during the conflicts in Afghanistan and Chechnya.In both conflicts, the Smel’chak projectile consistently destroyed targets quickly, precisely, and with only a few rounds. The extreme firepower per round compensates for the Tyulpan’s slow rate of fire
BTW, Tulip has a presicion laser-guided ‘Daredevil’ mine. It also may fire nuke mines.
It is a pretty nice technology to me, with a presicion and firepower of an airstrike lacking all the related costs.
286 lb HE, ~6mi range.
June 1985, the Russians used the 2S4 battery against a Mujahideen stronghold that artillery could not engage.They first used a conventional HE spotting round. They then adjusted the the firing data with the laser guided “Smel’chak” round.It hit the target exactly. The 2S4 battery destroyed the Mujahideen stronghold with just twelve rounds.
Are those the stats for the one featured in post #4?
It has a range of 5 miles but with extended munitions it can be expanded up to 12 miles
Yep, sure. As I told it is a good cost-effective alternative to a close air support in case if your troops are holding most of the ground and there is an air superiority established.
It is also a 100% effective airstrike replacement in post-nuclear environment without airpower left.
I agree with you.
I agree. Remember, the Syrian Army has been busy in fighting other wars since 1973 such as in Lebanese Civil War (against Lebanese militias, the PLO and Israel)and in the 1982 Lebanon war. So they have a well seasoned army.
This does not include the the Hama massacre of 1982, which has been described as “the single deadliest act by any Arab government against its own people in the modern Middle East”; as well as others such as the Tadmor Prison massacre, the Siege of Aleppo, Tel al-Zaatar massacre and the October 13 massacre.
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