I got to sit between two units on my M1A1 tank that had a fire mission
into Kuwait and Iraq.
The unit I called the BIg Ear sat up on the forward berm to identify
targets of opportunity.
These so called targets were other artillery that were firing on its own
troops for desertion.
By late evening the star clusters that littered the sky soon died down
to one or two after the MRLS missions were done.
On 4/4/2016 12:11 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
My dream fire mission was MLRS :)
On Apr 3, 2016 10:23 PM, "Cameron Crum" <cc...@wispmon.com
<mailto:cc...@wispmon.com>> wrote:
I'm all for precision guided munitions, but nothing says we've
come to kick some ass like shelling an enemy position with the
16in guns from a battleship. Talk about demoralizing the enemy.
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Josh Reynolds
<j...@kyneticwifi.com <mailto:j...@kyneticwifi.com>> wrote:
Systems like that don't exist so much... At least, there are
no guns of that size on a battleship that I'm aware of (16").
I know there are much smaller systems now for certain classes
of warships. When I was going through my joint fires naval
training we talked about a bunch of systems (that are now
public knowledge). One of the newer naval guns has a 40+
nautical mile range and GPS guided round - similar to the
Excalibur artillery round. Those are mostly automated systems.
If I remember right, a full battery salvo from an Iowa class
battleship on a surface target could spread out the round
impact locations to create a 1Km x 1Km "casualty box". I
always wanted the opportunity to employ that system :P
On Apr 3, 2016 10:23 AM, "David Milholen" <dmilho...@wletc.com
<mailto:dmilho...@wletc.com>> wrote:
What an AWEsome piece of history.
I wonder how many of those systems are completely
automated and how much faster reload time is ?
On 4/3/2016 1:59 AM, Josh Reynolds wrote:
https://youtu.be/_wT1xkRpCKk
I love this stuff.
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