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To: Chainmail

I don’t see a need for larger artillery than our standard 155 mm at this time. Rockets, aircraft, and drones are for longer distances or harder targets.

Really, I just took issue with your bizarre claim that “you’re not an engineer and probably never served in artillery.. Eight inch guns are a little large for towing...” when we towed greater than 9 inch artillery into battle in WW2, Korea, and Vietnam.

It’s as though you didn’t know that we towed larger artillery, yet were pretending that others didn’t know what they were talking about.

Now you know.


31 posted on 05/15/2013 8:43:59 AM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

“I don’t see a need for larger artillery than our standard 155 mm at this time.”

They have a devastating effect on massed things like artillery and vehicles. Also on Japs hiding in caves/bunkers.


32 posted on 05/15/2013 8:52:48 AM PDT by AppyPappy (You never see a massacre at a gun show.)
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To: Southack
"I don’t see a need for larger artillery than our standard 155 mm at this time"

Well. that's swell. Now what is the basis for your expertise?

To the best of my knowledge, we never used any artillery larger than an 8 inch in Vietnam. We had that worthless 175mm but that isn't larger. You have repeated the "all we need is towed artillery" tripe, so let's hear about your actual experience.

34 posted on 05/15/2013 1:29:53 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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