I remember when they did that with the 2.75”. Also what is interesting is 66mm LAW and 2.75” is the same size. You can mate a LAW warhead on a 2.75” motor and it works just fine. This was done in 1972 during the Easter Offensive in Vietnam to give helicopters an anti-tank capability. It worked great.
Take an M151 Jeep and wrap a GP Medium tent aroung it. Then pick it up and put it in the water. It floats just fine.
Yep. They also started issuing recall orders for any ready reservists they could find who had been trained in the TOW missile system, then new and mostly in use aboard helicopters, or the 152mm gun-launcher of the M551 Sheridan, as most crews then in-country had only fired HE and beehive conventional rounds.
I was in college on the GI Bill at the time, got my notice and was at Ft Knox within 4 hours. I got a new issue of fatiges, boots, duffel bag and assorted other One Eachs but happily never left the 'States. But it was a real interesting Easter egg in my basket that year.
Don't forget to close the flap for the stovepipe.
It worked the other way around, too. In the late 1970s the Rhodesians took the warheads from 68mm Matra pod rockets, less needed since SAM-7s had made helo and light aircraft strikes a less one-sided deal, and fit them to tail booms to become the 76 Zulu rifle grenade. Launched with a blank round, they were a dandy first shot back when a patrol was ambushed.
