[Cannoneer No. 4]

[Rockpile]

Hey thanks for the photos. Never saw them myself but heard about their use. Were these APCs that were damaged somehow and unable to be deployed normally?

Also heard of using Ontos with canister rounds as ambush breakers in convoys. I climbed into one at Camp Lejeune, it was pretty small. Might could almost put two of them on a lowboy.

As far as the M 85s go, they seemed to have a lot of feed trouble. The M2s in the M48s seemed to be more reliable from what I recall. Also, the M85 sights in our turrets seemed to mess up a lot; maybe they weren't saltwater proofed enough.

[archy]

Latest I've heard from Knox: the Stryker's General Dynamics promoters have a cure for the vehicle's unsuitability for use with the Mk 19 grenade launcher: do away with the Mark 19, and switch over to a *new and improved model* Mark 47 40mm auto grenade launcher instead.

Coincidentally, of course, the builder for the Mark 47 is General Dynamics.

It may be that the Stryker's incompatability with the Mark 19 was designed in from the get-go.

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