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From: ras@mtuxo.att.com (Richard A Stewart)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Bull - 155mm Howitzer, etc
Keywords: PBS/FrontLine this week
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Date: 15 Feb 91 06:47:53 GMT
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From: ras@mtuxo.att.com (Richard A Stewart)
In article <1991Feb13.220740.4885@cbnews.att.com> ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence) writes:
|According to popular journalistic sources, the Gerry Bull-designed
|155mm and 210mm howitzers -- which are used by the Iraqi artillery --
|have greater range and accuracy than any other weapon of comparable
|caliber, including the artillery available to U.S. and other Coalition
|forces.  How much better are these bull-designed artillery pieces, and
|what accounts for their superiority?

The PBS FrontLine program which aired earlier this week (in NJ)
covered the life, work & assassination of Gerry Bull -
	improvements to howitzers & shells, the space guns,
	earlier German work, his really big guns - the last
	project being for Iraq ...