No offense meant to anyone.... But let me ask you one question:-
What was the cost in human lives paid for that adventure ? (Both sides, good, bad, ugly...... human cost ?) Regards Faisal Imtiaz > From: "David Milholen" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, April 4, 2016 8:24:36 AM > Subject: Re: [AFMUG] [ot] battleship engineering > 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" < [email protected] > 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 < [email protected] > >>> 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" < [email protected] > 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. >>>>> -- > --
