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To: jdm

Pot = Kettle

Flechettes are an anti-personnel weapon that is generally fired from tanks. The shell explodes in the air and releases thousands of metal darts 3.75 mm in length, which disperse in a conical arch three hundred meters long and about ninety meters wide. .

The IDF uses flechette shells (M494 105mm APERS-T rounds) that are 105 mm in diameter and are fired from tanks.

Supplied by none other than - the USofA - and the IDF has been using them for years. Lots of bad blood to go around.


7 posted on 08/31/2006 10:49:37 PM PDT by ASOC (The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
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To: ASOC
The IDF uses flechette shells (M494 105mm APERS-T rounds) that are 105 mm in diameter and are fired from tanks.

Are these fired at civilians? Because that's who the Katushya rockets are fired at

Your comparison is ridiculous

9 posted on 08/31/2006 11:02:19 PM PDT by dennisw (Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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To: ASOC
Flechettes are an anti-personnel weapon that is generally fired from tanks

It is one thing to use flechettes against military targets, or Claymores for that matter. It is another thing entirely to aim hundreds of flying Claymores indiscriminately at civilian areas as Hiz did.

Go sell your moral equivalence arguments to will buyers. You will find few such people here.

19 posted on 09/01/2006 6:28:03 AM PDT by dirtboy (This tagline has been photoshopped)
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To: ASOC
Like the MAN says,"your comparison is ridiculous"
25 posted on 09/01/2006 11:34:47 AM PDT by jerryem (A Raghead is something on the end of a Dipstick.)
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To: ASOC
Lots of bad blood to go around.

Wrong. Isreal doesn't use them against human beings.

27 posted on 09/01/2006 11:48:27 AM PDT by Ramius (Buy blades for war fighters: freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net --> 1600 knives and counting!)
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