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To: Gaffer

Im not familiar with those things... but I recall Balad Airbase had counter mortars that could return fire as rounds were incoming. Problem was the enemy would hang rounds with Ice cube sting fuses.... went the ice melted the rounds would fire.... and they were long gone before we returned fire.


6 posted on 08/07/2024 12:42:52 AM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: Pocketdoor

LCMR is a low cost CMR that can be mounted anywhere, very small. Round pill box looking things you’d see atop a vehicle of compound high point. TPQ53 is a bigger, better truck mounted version with greater range and rocket/artillery fire detections. CRAM would be something like a Phalanx gun fire system connected to either of these, IIRC.


7 posted on 08/07/2024 12:49:21 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Pocketdoor

They also used to use the ‘bent-fin’ technique on the rounds. Gives the round a nonstandard parabolic trajectory that makes source detection hard.


8 posted on 08/07/2024 12:51:54 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Pocketdoor

In AFG they used washing machine/dryer timers.


22 posted on 08/07/2024 2:14:22 PM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (Either the Deep State destroys America or we destroy the Deep State. -Donald Trump)
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