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- From: ppugliese@pimacc.pima.edu
- Subject: Re: 106mm Recoiless Rifle - Rocket or Gun?
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:36:44 GMT
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- From ppugliese@pimacc.pima.edu
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- In article <Bxo0wB.5p3@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
- (Iskandar Taib) writes:
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- > In article <BxID61.LMH@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> ppugliese@pimacc.pima.edu writes:
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- >>would attract alot of tank or AFV anti-personnel fire.
- >>RR duty assignments was
- >>NOT something that was sought after.
- >
- > Col. Hatcher, in his Notebook, mentions the Recoiless Rifle
- > favorably, saying that it gave infantry the power of artillery
- > in a weapon that had about the same accuracy as a '06 Spring-
- > field and could be handled by four men.
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- The outfit my brother was in did not have JEEP mounted RRs.
- The weapon had to be assembled in position.
- According to him , RR duty was considered to be something of
- a "suicide" assignment because of the expected enemy response
- once it opened fire.
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