[Pontiac]

The Ontos carried the beehive round that sent out a hundred darts per firing to clean out a jungle of its enemy. There was no other weapon that could clear a jungle for a depth of a ¼ mile like the 106mm recoilless rifle using the beehive round. Artillery shells and bombs effectiveness was cut to the area of a direct hit.

The jungle vegetation absorbed both concussion and fragmentation. The other vehicles that mounted the 106mm recoilless rifle were open to enemy small arms fire. The Ontos could expose itself to enemy small arms for the short time it took to empty its 6 guns and depart to a more secure position to reload. It was an armoured shotgun and the North Vietnamese Army feared it. .

[rlmorel]

Boy, they had damned good reason to fear it. I sure would.

Beehive rounds from those things? I am thinking canister rounds shot from a cannon, but far, far more lethal. It could probably mow a field.

[jmacusa]

The ‘’Beehive’’ round was the most used artillery round in Vietnam.