Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!amdcad!military From: ckd%bucsf.BU.EDU@bu-it.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Dune Buggies Message-ID: <27158@amdcad.AMD.COM> Date: 8 Sep 89 06:26:39 GMT Sender: cdr@amdcad.AMD.COM Lines: 27 Approved: military@amdcad.amd.com From: ckd%bucsf.BU.EDU@bu-it.bu.edu (Christopher Davis) On 31 Aug 89 09:38:47 GMT, egvideo!timk@watmath.waterloo.edu (Tim Kuehn) said: > Supposedly at one time there was a time when dune-buggy's were > considered for use in combat. The 9th Infantry Division (High Technology Light Division) did some stuff with these in the early 1980s at Ft. Lewis and Yakima Firing Center, WA. (I was young at the time, and most of my sources are from the Ft. Lewis RANGER paper; my impressions of my impressions (:-) follow:) Most of them seemed to be equipped with TOW anti-tank missile launchers or .50cal MGs. Early reports were fairly favorable (I think) with them taking out large numbers of tanks in wargames at YFC (which is generally rolling-hills type stuff, at least what I've seen of it), especially in combined-arms fighting alongside A-10s. I believe the program was a victim of budget cuts of some kind (the B-2 perhaps? :-) but I don't know for sure. Disclaimer: I think I was 12. My dad flys helicopters and wasn't there. / |/ |\ @bu-pub.bu.edu | Chris Davis, BU SMG 90 | disclaim, disclaim... \ |\ |/ %bu-pub@bu-it.bu.edu | IGNORE THE PATH: LINE! | smghy6c@buacca.bitnet