To: 68skylark
New? This was around in WW2.
To: English Nationalist
New? This was around in WW2. Cannister has been a standard artillery load at least since the Napoleonic Wars.
All of our artillery has it, and all our tanks did through the 105mm gun on the M-60.
At least during the Vietnam era there was also a Flechette Round which was a cannister filled essentially with 20 pounds of nails.
I can't imagine why it was never provided for the 120mm.
So9
To: English Nationalist
It's grapeshot and has been around as long as there have been cannons.
17 posted on
12/05/2005 11:13:31 AM PST by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: English Nationalist
My Great-great-great uncle Benjamin F. Cassell was killed by grape shot and cannister fire in the battle of the Peach Orchard on the second day at Gettysburg. He was a Captain in Barksdale's Brigade.
Everything old is new again.
TAW
18 posted on
12/05/2005 11:13:44 AM PST by
Malichi
To: English Nationalist
Yeah, but there hasn't been such a munition crafted for firing from the Abrams main gun til now.
Since the inception of the 120mm-armed Abrams tank, we have lacked a true anti-personnel weapon system.
see?
19 posted on
12/05/2005 11:13:51 AM PST by
ExcursionGuy84
("Jesus, Your Love takes my breath away.")
To: English Nationalist
Gunner, troops in the open, 75m, Beehive, fire at will...
22 posted on
12/05/2005 11:15:50 AM PST by
Cvengr
(<;^))
To: English Nationalist
New? This was around in WW2. Canister's been around since before the Civil War. Grapeshot longer than that.
It's an awesome anti-personnel weapon.
24 posted on
12/05/2005 11:17:57 AM PST by
Kenton
(The worst tragedy that ever befell Africa was the end of colonialism.)
To: English Nationalist
This was around in WW2. They were using canister and grape shot at least as far back as the Civil War.
27 posted on
12/05/2005 11:20:32 AM PST by
IronJack
To: English Nationalist
"New? This was around in WW2."
This was around in the Revolutionary war when George Washington ordered the men to put their buttons and belt buckles into the cannons.
Heck, this was probably done with a catapult 3,000 years before that.
29 posted on
12/05/2005 11:21:58 AM PST by
MeanWestTexan
(Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
To: English Nationalist
Stuarts used them on Guadalcanal
40 posted on
12/05/2005 11:34:00 AM PST by
wildcatf4f3
(admittedly too unstable for public office)
To: English Nationalist
they reinvent the gattlinggun and now grapeshot
47 posted on
12/05/2005 11:41:51 AM PST by
wildcatf4f3
(admittedly too unstable for public office)
To: English Nationalist
To: English Nationalist
New? This was around in WW2. Googling led to this Kiwi history piece, which refers to case shot in the 1453 siege of Constantinople (not sure which side), and recalls its use in WWII jungle warfare:
The Gun - Smoothbore Era 1550-1860: Projectiles
To: English Nationalist
New? This was around in WW2.How true and also a Union/Rebel favorite during the Civil War!
To: English Nationalist
I saw a similar cartridge at Gettysburg for a cannon. At the Union position at the top of Pickett's charge they have a display. They basically fired them at point blank range during deepest penetration by the South.
I'm guessing the new version has a bit more kick however!
66 posted on
12/05/2005 11:55:47 AM PST by
HereInTheHeartland
(Never bring a knife to a gun fight, or a Democrat to do serious work...)
To: English Nationalist
"New? This was around in WW2."
They were shooting canister during the civil war...just not out of tanks.
88 posted on
12/05/2005 1:19:52 PM PST by
Busywhiskers
("...moral principle, the sine qua non of an orderly society." --Judge Edith H. Jones)
To: English Nationalist
New? This was around in WW2. And the Civil War.
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