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About LinkBacks- 16-08-2012, 03:52 #1
USMC Cannon cockers get 22 mile arty kill
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- 16-08-2012, 05:05 #2Senior Member
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Amazing CEP!!
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- 16-08-2012, 05:46 #3
"Golf Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines, out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., dropped the 155mm M982 Excalibur round on insurgents 36 kilometers away — more than 22 miles"
Sounds like things are going downhill in California?
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- 16-08-2012, 05:56 #4
Nice. What's the flight time for one of those rounds at that distance I wonder? You'd have to be sure your target wasn't going to get up and walk away once you'd called it in!
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- 16-08-2012, 06:38 #5
Will NGS slowly be phased out within a generation or two.
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- 16-08-2012, 07:04 #6Senior Member
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Long range sniping?
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And no blue on blue. Amazing.
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meh...
G5 howitzer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maximum range Standard: 30 km (19 mi)
Base bleed: 39 km (24 mi)
VLAP: 50 km (31 mi)[1]
Or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G6_howitzer
Effective range Standard: 30 km (19 mi)
Base bleed: 39 km (24 mi)
V-LAP: 52.5 km (32.6 mi)
M9703A1: 67 km (42 mi)
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- 16-08-2012, 10:43 #9Senior Member
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The round is GPS guided and it can track armour an.d change it's course, probably not for terry but perhaps they called in the rounds once thet set up for the night.
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For me one of the most amazing things is that the on board electronics survive something like 12000 g forces on firing and to fu2 they are capable of tracking and avoiding blue on blue, so long as you know where they are?!I’ve heard that fact, that is you eat more than 6 bananas it will kill you.
I saw a bowl with 7 bananas in it, and i thought, that’s dangerous.
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Thats an amazing gun, JJH - who makes it?
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