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The intertubes is neat.
I've, at my fingertips, information that was classified or wildly speculative in 1985 when Twilight: 2000 was first published.
Some of those wild speculations came to naught.
Some of them came to naught because the Soviet Union collapsed.
I'm going through cannon ammunition for my GURPS conversion now and I found a couple of fun 120mm rounds.
XM943 STAFF (Smart Target Activated Fire and Forget). It's a smart round fired from the main gun which guides itself over the top of the target, firing an explosively formed projectile into the roof as it goes over.
The project ran to 1998 before being cancelled.
With the money taps still running wide open for a cold war that ran until 1997 when nukes flew... The M943 could have seen service.
Next, Israel has developed a less-than-lethal 120mm tank round.
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It's like a flash-bang on steroids with a load of plastic flakes for a shotgun-like pattern for good measure.
I've got to make a few revisions. We went with ball bearings instead of flechettes for the canister round historically, for example.
Well, we (the USA) did use flechettes in beehive rounds during Vietnam. In a fallen-world scenario, if any beehive rounds remained in the arsenal, they'd be used.
ReplyDeleteAs to a 120mm flashbang? Wow, that sounds bright. And here I've been told reliably by theMSM and politicians that Israel is sudden death to all non-Jewish peoples in the area. (Yes, I know, Israel has actually bent over backwards and suffered casualties in its quest to not create casualties.)
In 1990 Germany we never even saw anything but HEAT and APFSDSDU for war-shot.
DeleteEven with the 105's. The M60A3 guys across the quad in the scout troop had some WP for issue, but they were leery of using it because of storage concerns.
In looking up the rounds it appears we've moved away from flechettes and into tungsten balls for our 120mm shotgun.
But continental units, especially Nat Guards, probably had flechettes if they had any 8" howitzers still issued.
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