Posted on 10/08/2004 4:51:57 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl
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1500 155 rounds on one truck? How much does one of those puppies weigh?
Wow!!
Bump!
I'd ask him those questions while he was sitting in the cab of his truck.
And I'd be flipping my Zippo while I was asking.
Shalom.
Maybe 90 pounds? (If the link info is correct)
"Since these rounds are not rocket propelled like most mortars, bag charges would be tossed in the tube and the two men would use a special carrier to hoist up and drop a 90-pound 155mm munition, or it may be breech-loaded like the 160mm mortars used by Russia, Finland, and Israel."
Oh, I dunno;
After the IRAQI (NO bleeding-heart ACLU, CNN, etc. advocates looking on )Authorities have a little chat with them and ask ever so nicely for a little intel, they'll all probably wish they'd detonated the truck themselves as soon as they saw the jig was up.
I'm surprised they didn't, actually; would likely to have taken out a bunch of "good guys" by doing so.
Thanks and praise be to G-d, Allah, Jupiter, or whoever else is currently running things over there for that, eh?
Getting those "Assault Bombs" off the street is no doubt going to save a lot of lives - Iraqi as well as American - come election time.
I'd make him run around with one tied around his neck.
I'm sure these artillery rounds were simply wedding gifts.
1,500 155-millimeter artillery rounds = alot of dead Americans. Many many lives were just saved.
HOO-RAH to our great Troops!!
I also found it to be a high number of shells for one truck. If one weighs 100lbs (and I am sure they are more) that's 150,000 lbs, or 75 tons. Our tanks weigh around 60 tons, so I suppose it's possible to have that much ordnance in a large semi. If there are that many shells, do any of them contain sarin? That's the real question, since we know they've shown up there before.
Funny, this didn't make the top-of-the-hour radio news. They did manage to work in a story effectively blaming Bush for the bombings in Egypt, though.
Wouldn't it be timely if 1,000 or so of the shells turned out to be chemical weapons?
That was more than one truck ... 1500 155mm rounds are almost 70 TONS of casing an explosive.
That's what I was thinking, maybe 100 lbs. Plus container weight. Gotta be one big truck.
You can bet that the MSM would downplay 1000 chemical shells being a stockpile. The fact that they found one is good enough for me. These nerve agents only require a drop to kill a person. There's plenty of "drops" in one shell. Taking the chemicals out of a shell and placing them in a more compact, portable bomb could do a lot of damage in a NY or DC subway station.
If they were assembled with propellent and case, about 60#, if I recall correctly..Been a long time. :-(
I don't understand why they didn't just stick a gps tracking phone on it, follow it to its destination and loose a warthog or spectre on it while being unloaded.
Put panties on his head and make him bark like a dog until he fesses up!
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