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From: hsu@eng.umd.edu (Dave "bd" Hsu)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: 155mm anti-tank ammunition?
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.151248.1623@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 25 Oct 90 15:12:48 GMT
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From: hsu@eng.umd.edu (Dave "bd" Hsu)
In article <1990Oct22.040305.18740@cbnews.att.com> dwells@fits.cx.nrao.edu (Don Wells) writes:
>The shell contains small bomblets. My memory is that they were of
>order 40-50mm in diameter, perhaps 80-100mm long. They have a cloth
>"tail" on them, kind of like a kite tail. The bomblets, as I call
>them, are *shaped charges*. The 155mm shell body contains a
>considerable number of them, several dozen at least.

This reminds me of an article in Scientific American about 9 years ago
describing two column-killer projects, "Assault Breaker" and "MLRS".
The former was described as a research testbed for dispensing multiple
antitank and antipersonnel submunitions; the latter was described as a
rocket, launchable from a 155's tube, which would dispense several
antitank submunitions in hopes of disabling the front of an armor column.
MLRS was to go into service in 1982 or 1983.  What ever became of these
programs?

-dave

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