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To: wita
MK-20 Rockeye
The MK-20 Rockeye is a free-fall, unguided cluster weapon designed to kill tanks and armored vehicles.
The system consists of a clamshell dispenser, a mechanical MK-339 timed fuze, and 247 dual-purpose armor-piercing shaped-charge bomblets.
The bomblet weighs 1.32 pounds and has a 0.4-pound shaped-charge warhead of high explosives, which produces up to 250,000 psi at the point of impact, allowing penetration of approximately 7.5 inches of armor.
Rockeye is most efficiently used against area targets requiring penetration to kill.
Fielded in 1968, the Rockeye dispenser is also used in the Gator air-delivered mine system.
During Desert Storm US Marines used the weapon extensively, dropping 15,828 of the 27,987 total Rockeyes against armor, artillery, and antipersonnel targets.
The remainder were dropped by Air Force (5,345) and Navy (6,814) aircraft.

If it will penetrate 7.5 inches of armor, I garontee it will put a hole in a concrete runway.

54 posted on 04/08/2007 7:52:30 AM PDT by concretebob (I'm NOT pro-war, I'm ANTI - TERRORIST)
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To: concretebob; All
This link was posted over at the GOE forum:

http://www.vineeta.org/cancel

The text at the link reads:

This is a message to our listserv members as we can’t update or edit our website page without the webmaster (who’s Mon-Fri).

Sorry for this late notice but we’ve been contacted by the authorities that there are plans for a counter demonstration tomorrow and on their blogs (which they’ve been monitoring and taking seriously) some of these groups have stated that they’d like to use violence against us.

It’s lamentable that there’s a segment in our society that feel that they must deal with all their problems and disagreements with violence :-(

But because there are children involved we, in consultation with the authorities, have decided to cancel our event.

We regret this but can’t risk the security of the children. Hope you’ll understand and agree.

P.S. Please don’t release this information widely because we’d be happy for these groups to waste their time and resources with their counter demonstration tomorrow :-)

I'll believe the moonbats canceled when we get to the White House tomorrow and don't see them anywhere. I would not put it past them to try a misdirection ploy on us.

JUST TO BE CLEAR: WE ARE GO FOR MONDAY MORNING

55 posted on 04/08/2007 9:09:58 AM PDT by kristinn
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