To: Yasotay
One of the main reasons the 9th was shelved was there was no lightweight assault gun vehicle.There were some, just None Invented Here.
48 posted on
02/09/2004 6:39:50 PM PST by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Do not forget your dogs of war, your big guns)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
Well, there was
one that was invented here:
The M4 Sherman mounting a 105mm howitzer.
Not a very well known tank, but proved to be a very, very useful weapon during WW2. Might be a bit heavy for the old 9th ID however...
54 posted on
02/09/2004 7:25:41 PM PST by
Ronzo
(GOD alone is enough.)
To: Cannoneer No. 4
True, I also remember the French Foreign Legion getting our Mk 19s (we got an interesting briefing from the French about how they destoried a Libyan Corps in Chad with our Mk19s....). The AGS just never came about in the US. There were lots of very good ideas. One of my favorites was to equip infantry companies with lasers for Hellfires. The Hellfires were to be launched from a 5 Ton truck. The Apache crowd stopped that idea. Oh well .....
57 posted on
02/09/2004 9:21:51 PM PST by
Yasotay
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