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To: LibWhacker
the US Marines are getting shoulder-mounted thermobaric weapons which, if ready in time for a war with Iraq, could have devestating potential in streetfighting in Baghdad.

Wow, shoulder-launched Big BLUs! That's amazing, Those guys must be lifting weights.

Oh no. There's been a thermobaric warhead available for the Soviet-designed RPG-7 rocket-grenade launcher for several years now, [GTB-7G] and the Russians have found it quite useful for streetfighting in Grozny. The concept should work just as well with Marine MAWS and SMAWS.

But the idea that we're thinking of going in to clean buildings in cities is an unsettling one, and a potential source for large numbers of American casualties. Let's hope the US troops have a lot of those thermobaric housebreakers available in their tricky-bags.


36 posted on 12/30/2002 6:06:54 PM PST by archy
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To: archy; Happy2BMe
Thanks, both of you. Hadn't heard about these things. Amazing. Been out of the service a loooooooooong time! :-)
37 posted on 12/30/2002 7:25:09 PM PST by LibWhacker
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