AN M1 Abrams tank fires a new M1028 canister round during an exhibition at Fort Knox, Ky. Nov 10.
Wakeland Kuamoo
I love it -- ust the thing for "stability operations"!
1 posted on
12/05/2005 11:02:45 AM PST by
68skylark
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To: 68skylark
New? This was around in WW2.
To: 68skylark
3 posted on
12/05/2005 11:04:39 AM PST by
bybybill
(GOD help us if the Rats win)
To: 68skylark
They said the round would be great for tankers confronted by massed enemy troops...
While that isn't that likely, it is nice to have in the arsenal.
4 posted on
12/05/2005 11:05:16 AM PST by
bnelson44
(Proud parent of a tanker!)
To: 68skylark
US Army Armor!
Anything else is just, well... tanks.
5 posted on
12/05/2005 11:05:41 AM PST by
SJSAMPLE
To: 68skylark
"Give them a whiff of the grape."
To: 68skylark
"Ouchies"
7 posted on
12/05/2005 11:07:43 AM PST by
xcamel
(a system poltergeist stole it.)
To: 68skylark
Finally, a Cajun duck round.
8 posted on
12/05/2005 11:08:15 AM PST by
billhilly
(John Murtha, ex Marine. Leading the charge of the Demoquits.)
To: 68skylark
New? Unique?
Maybe in 1862,
Everything old is new again.
To: 68skylark
Remember the Canister Scenes in the movie Gettysberg when the Confederates got near the Union lines Pickett's Charge? Just Damn.
To: 68skylark
Is this similar to the fleshette round used in VN? Loaded with thousands of small metal darts.
To: 68skylark
About time! The lack of these really detracted from the ability to service many types of targets.
13 posted on
12/05/2005 11:11:36 AM PST by
glorgau
To: 68skylark
If my memory serves, we used a 105mm round in Vietnam called a Beehive round that was effectively used against wire breeches during the Tet Offensive.
25 posted on
12/05/2005 11:18:44 AM PST by
Spok
(Est omnis de civilitate.)
To: 68skylark
This weapon, in principle known to Napoleon, has been the topic of several threads over the past year.
28 posted on
12/05/2005 11:20:38 AM PST by
RightWhale
(Not transferable -- Good only for this trip)
To: 68skylark
It's basically a 60s style "beehive" round for the 120 main gun there's nothing new about the design just the caliber.Now if they'll bring back the 40mm shot shell for the M203 we'll be in business.
30 posted on
12/05/2005 11:22:42 AM PST by
edchambers
(Neocon foot-soldier of the Haliburton death squad)
To: 68skylark
This gives new meaning to the term "crowd control"
33 posted on
12/05/2005 11:26:31 AM PST by
BadAndy
(Note to Democrats: Benedict Arnold also called himself a patriot.)
To: 68skylark
"Give 'em a whiff of the grape!"
35 posted on
12/05/2005 11:28:39 AM PST by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2005, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
To: 68skylark
Hm. Let's see; a shotgun gauge is the number of lead balls the diameter of the gun's barrel that it takes to weigh 1 lb. Lead is 11340 Kg/m3. This cannon is 120 mm in diameter. My math says that this is a .023 ga. shotgun.
49 posted on
12/05/2005 11:45:58 AM PST by
RonF
To: 68skylark
I love it ....it should be used on Saddam and his entire entourage of lawyers
55 posted on
12/05/2005 11:49:21 AM PST by
injin
To: 68skylark
or a street sweeper with a 20mm GAU-4 or a 30mm GAU-8...
58 posted on
12/05/2005 11:50:51 AM PST by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: 68skylark
The next time a bunch of tracksuit-wearing ski-masked AK-wielding idjits decide to dance in the street in Ramadi, how I do wish Mr. Abrams would come around the corner right about then and send one of these right down Main Street. You'd never see THAT on the evening news. (And in fairness, it'd be pretty hard to eat your hamburger steak after seeing what that would do to somebody.)
I love it. It's like Raid for jihadis. Kills bugs dead.
}:-)4
72 posted on
12/05/2005 12:08:51 PM PST by
Moose4
(Liberals and vampires: Both like death, both hate crosses, and both are bloodsuckers.)
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