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To: Texas Fossil

http://www.rt66.com/~korteng/SmallArms/PrincipalWeapons.htm

“Quad .50: A half-track mounting four .50s capable of being fired as a unit. Developed as an anti-aircraft weapon, as an antipersonnel weapon it was capable of hurling an immense amount of fire into hillsides and valleys against advancing infantry, or long-range harassing fire against enemy movement routes at night. Firing as many as 100,000 rounds a day, the Quad .50 could go over hills like a vacuum cleaner, sucking them devoid of life.”

The Germans had something similar, a `Werbel’ (Whirlwind’)? and used it a lot after they lost control of the air.
That’d work!

I was thinking of something the Marines used— 4 recoilless rifles? An Ontos(?) That might be even better for cartel caravan work.


7 posted on 07/11/2012 9:17:03 PM PDT by tumblindice (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: tumblindice
“When all six weapons were fired at once, the back blast from the firing knocked bricks out of a nearby building and knocked the rear windows out of several cars.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontos

Blast from the back of the recoil-less rifles is not insignificant.

8 posted on 07/11/2012 9:38:33 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: tumblindice; Texas Fossil

Freeper Foxhole on the Ontos

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1827176/posts

Regards

alfa6 ;>}


24 posted on 07/12/2012 3:46:45 AM PDT by alfa6 (...Moderation is for monks RAH)
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