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To: 17th Miss Regt

Ontos - Think of a ‘lowered’ Bobcat skid-steer with armor plate and a 283 Chevy V-8.

Six 106 recoil-less rifles, each with its own .50 cal spotter rifle bore-sighted and loaded with a WP-Tracer with identical ballistics to the 106 round.

These 106s could be loaded with HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank), HE, Hep-T, Flechettes (’Beehive’ - so called for the buzzing sound these hundreds of mini-darts made).

Very accurate! We watched an Ontos and an M-48 tank have a shooting match at a tree. The Ontos won handily!

Very thin armor. Light weight (compared to a tank), able to go places a tank would bog down. Pick a ‘hull defilade’ firing position, shoot-n-scoot!

Lots of firepower in a small package!


11 posted on 12/05/2015 8:01:36 PM PST by BwanaNdege
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To: BwanaNdege

Is a ontos also known as mighty might? My dad scrap book has similar looking machines in pictures, I think, and “the mighty might” is labeled by the snaps.

Thanks in advance.


12 posted on 12/05/2015 8:06:13 PM PST by guyfromjrz (fresh breath, it speaks for itself.)
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