Meanwhile, the jihadists are still using Pickett's Charge tactics.
We had two flavors of canister for the 90mm gun of the M48 tank; one with a thousand half-inch roller bearings as per that traditional *grapeshot* load, known as *black can*, or *beehive" with the alternate being *green can,* loaded with 8500 nail-like flechettes.
The M551 Sheridan, with a 152mm main gun made an even better shotgun. The bigger, the better. I always figured thay should have had beehive rounds for the 8-inch and 175mm guns.
The Jihadists' synchronized raids on two seperate convoys is a little better than Pickett's charge against fixed positions, and recalls the Mexican cavalry raid on the French Foreign Legion pay train guarded by a Lieutenant Danjou and his men near the city of Puebla, at a wrecked chapel and graveyard that's been come to be known as the Fight at Camerone, 30 April, 1963. Should you require details, you can easily enough look it up, but it's better to hear the story directly from a Foreign Legionaire on the anniversary of that date.
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