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From: scameron@blake.acs.washington.edu (Scott Cameron)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Bushmaster
Summary: HMMWV w/40mm Grenade launchers in svc w/9ID(MTZ)
Keywords: Bushmaster, Hummer
Message-ID: <11546@cbnews.ATT.COM>
Date: 20 Nov 89 00:50:31 GMT
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From: scameron@blake.acs.washington.edu (Scott Cameron)

In article <11427@cbnews.ATT.COM>, janf@nada.kth.se (Jan Frelin) writes:
 
> I saw a picture of something called the
> "Bushmaster" gun. (Model pic, actually).
 
> What is this? It locked like it could an
> Auto GrenadeLauncher, but I thought the
> US had given those up. It was mounted
> on a Hummer.
The 9th Inf Div (Motorized) (Ft. Lewis, WA) has several Humvees fitted with
a 40mm automatic grenade launcher.  But I don't believe it is called a 
"Bushmaster".  It's swivel mounted above the cab in the 9ths troop-carrying
Hummers and is operated by one of the troops in the back, similar in concept,
if not in appearance, to the way MGs were mounted in WWII jeeps.

Its one of those unique items (like the trailer-mounted Chaparral missile)
that is unique to the 9th, and will probably fall by the wayside if/when the 
9th fully converts to mechanized.


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