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Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?
What you talking about?....there's still one building and a few trees standing BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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BUFDRVR wrote:
Interestingly, I did see where the Iranians have recently developed a rocket boosted LGB using an M117 as the warhead. Strange since the thin skinned M-117 has nearly zero pentration capability. All putting a rocket on it would do was ensure the skin breached before the explosive chain hit its full psi. A big sparkler would be the result. I expect that the rocket is used at the beginning of the flight to enhance stand-off range, not penetration. Something like USN's Skipper, which was basically a Paveway II with a Shrike motor on the back end. -- Tom Schoene Replace "invalid" with "net" to e-mail "If brave men and women never died, there would be nothing special about bravery." -- Andy Rooney (attributed) |
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Subject: How accurate was B-26 bombing?
From: (BUFDRVR) Date: 3/2/04 4:33 PM Pacific Standard Time Message-id: Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch? What you talking about?....there's still one building and a few trees standing BUFDRVR hole in the pattern Arthur Kramer 344th BG 494th BS England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany Visit my WW II B-26 website at: http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer |
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n M-117 has a much thinner bomb
body, but around 50% more explosive filler... How does this effect shrapnel effecitveness and dispersion? It throws less frag farther. BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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I expect that the rocket is used at the beginning of the flight to enhance
stand-off range, not penetration. ahhh, ok. I'll buy that then.... BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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hole in the pattern
Nope, either mil dispersion or it was not in line with the DMPI. IIRC, my formation went directly across (using the picture either top to bottom or left to right), it looks like the 2-ship who followed us (later that evening), just dropped 90-degrees out from us, effectively making a +. Appears that building may have been spared by targeting....or mil dispersion, can't tell. BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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"Thomas Schoene" wrote in message link.net... BUFDRVR wrote: Interestingly, I did see where the Iranians have recently developed a rocket boosted LGB using an M117 as the warhead. Strange since the thin skinned M-117 has nearly zero pentration capability. All putting a rocket on it would do was ensure the skin breached before the explosive chain hit its full psi. A big sparkler would be the result. I expect that the rocket is used at the beginning of the flight to enhance stand-off range, not penetration. Something like USN's Skipper, which was basically a Paveway II with a Shrike motor on the back end. Yeah. That is the plan from what I read--add the AGM 130 to the "similar to" category. Brooks -- Tom Schoene Replace "invalid" with "net" to e-mail "If brave men and women never died, there would be nothing special about bravery." -- Andy Rooney (attributed) |
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will we run out of M-117 before we run out of airframe life on the
Buffs? Doubtful, since they are "de-miling" them as well as dropping them at every opportunity. We've got 36 years left of BUFF airframe time, by my guess, all the M-117s will be gone by '06 or '07. BUFDRVR "Stay on the bomb run boys, I'm gonna get those bomb doors open if it harelips everyone on Bear Creek" |
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