The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Athens Double-Barreled Cannon (April, 1862) - Feb. 14th, 2005

American’s Civil War | September 1997 | Lonnie R. Speer

[w_over_w]

So that's a cat bird.

No, no, no . . . it's lionbird. This is catbird . . .

[w_over_w]

I want one!

[w_over_w]

Fleschette rounds are really nasty too.

Were these the razor shards (dropped by B-52s)that blew up overhead on the "highway of death" when the Iraqi Farces were fleeing Kuwait during the final phase of Desert Storm?

[SAMWolf]

LOL!

[Valin]

All together now. AAAHHHHH!

[SAMWolf]

I don't know if they have an airdropped version. I've only heard of the artillery rounds. I know the B-52 dropped Cluster bombs.

The CBU-87 is a 1,000-pound, Combined Effects Munition (CEM) for attacking soft target areas with detonating bomblets. The CBU-87 CEM, an all-purpose, air-delivered cluster weapons system, consists of a SW-65 Tactical Munitions Dispenser (TMD) with an optional FZU-39 proximity sensor. The BLU-97/B Combined Effects Bomb (CEB), effective against armor, personnel and material, contains a shaped charge, scored steel casing and zirconium ring for anti-armor, fragmentation and incendiary capability. The bomblet case is made of scored steel designed to break into approximately 300 preformed ingrain fragments for defeating light armor and personnel. A total of 202 of these bomblets are loaded in each dispenser enabling a single payload attack against a variety and wide area coverage. The footprint for the CBU-87 is approximatel 200 meters by 400 meters. The body of the submunition is cylindrical in shape, approximately 20 centimeters long, and has a 6 centimeter diameter. It is bright yellow when new.

During Desert Storm the US Air Force dropped 10,035 CBU-87s. During Allied Force the US dropped about 1,100 cluster bombs, and most of these were CBU-87s. The dud rate for a standard cluster was approximately five percent.

[w_over_w]

I know you enjoy answering my questions but I do need to make more of an effort to first "google" search . . .

From Jane's . . .

"In IDF service the M494 is fitted with the Reshef Technologies OMEGA M127 electronic fuze which is set before the round is fired. At the set range the forward section of the M494 round ruptures releasing approximately 5,000 small flechette darts and a dye marker. The flechettes are dispersed in a cone-shaped pattern which is 300m long and about 94m wide."

Still, you will always be Obe Won. ;^)

I gotta "kick it" for the night, we'll catch up to you tomorrow on "Treadhead Tuesday". Night!

[SAMWolf]

I get an excuse to look up more details on things I'm only vague on. :-)

[w_over_w]

Yep! That's what it was . . . very effective. I'll never forger the pics CNN (back when Atlanta ran that org.) showed the kill zone. Okay, NOW! Goodnight and thanks again Sam.

[snippy_about_it]

LOL. You've gone off the deep end!

[snippy_about_it]

They are a handsome bird for sure!

[snippy_about_it]

but I do need to make more of an effort to first "google" search

Oh no, you've found out about google-wan. :-(

You won't need us anymore.

[Iris7]

Looking at that M230 chain gun, hanging out there in the open, all those parts, looks like maybe a thousand of them. Helicopters blow up fantastic dust landing and taking off, imagine you are the one who has to dismount, strip, clean, lubricate, reassemble, and reinstall the weapon into the aircraft. Maybe, six of them into six helicopters by 0400 hours, and you just got back from closing out the EM club!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[SAMWolf]

I had enough trouble keeping my M-14 clean.

[stand watie]

tens of THOUSANDS is the correct number. Maryee's Heights for ONE.

the BRAVE but foolish bluecoats charged across open ground into the jaws of the rebel rifles at the CSA stronghold on the sunken road OVER & OVER.

HUNDREDS died for NOTHING there. many CSA troops after the battle weeped for the NEEDLESS deaths of so many.

free dixie,sw

[PhilDragoo]

The M230 needs an XM120-type turret:

XM120 30mm gun turret on A H-1G Cobra.

[SAMWolf]

I always thought the Cobra looked cooler than the Apache. ;-)

[PhilDragoo]

I would think the turret would enhance aerodynamics as well as maintenance issues.

And it raises the cool factor by orders of magnitude.

It goes to the whole, "Behold, Insurgents! Resistance is Futile!" thing.

[SAMWolf]

"Behold, Insurgents! Resistance is Futile!"

LOL!