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To: Charles Martel

“I wonder where the specialized tooling for the 155mm artillery shells (and cluster bomblets) ended up.”


Probably China, or sold as scrap.

Rumsfeld tried to get rid of artillery entirely, because his “experts” told him it was obsolete.

Despite the fact that every peer War starting with WW1, land based artillery creates 60-80 percent of all casualties.

In Ukraine it is at least 80 percent.


26 posted on 10/19/2023 5:18:42 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

Rumsfeld wanted to get rid of all artillery or just the Crusader Weapon System?


28 posted on 10/19/2023 7:18:17 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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