To: chance33_98; Poohbah; section9
Any takes on this?
We don't have 8-inch artillery, but there are 155mm guns. Any chance of getting the W82 back in production?
6 posted on
12/12/2003 10:02:55 AM PST by
hchutch
("I don't see what the big deal is, I really don't." - Major Vic Deakins, USAF (ret.))
To: hchutch
IIRC, the W82 program got killed because they couldn't get it to work properly.
Nuclear artillery was always of dubious use; by the time the nuclear release protocols would be completed, the situation would have changed so drastically one way or another (either making a nuclear strike unnecessary, or the situation becoming so unsalvageable that a nuke would be worthless).
11 posted on
12/12/2003 10:13:04 AM PST by
Poohbah
("Beware the fury of a patient man" -- John Dryden)
To: hchutch
We don't have 8-inch artillery, but there are 155mm guns. That would be a big surprise to the thousands of army and marine artillerymen currently manning the M110A2 in Iraq and other places around the world.
see: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/www/260b.htm
To: hchutch
Isn't the m-110a2 still in use?
52 posted on
12/12/2003 11:50:15 AM PST by
brooklin
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