The shells are a component of a portable military weapon that lobs them at targets up to several hundred metres away."
Hundreds of meters? try 4 kms.
ridenrain
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:25 pm
Considering reporters who cover war zones can't tell a tank from a jeep or an assault rifle from a '94 Winchester, I doubt there was much danger. You can get the cast iron shells for around $10 and they are as dangerous as a cinder block.
Scape
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:30 pm
Smacle Smacle:
Hundreds of meters? try 4 kms.
Was it a 105 round? Sounds like they found a 80mm mortar.
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:38 pm
Smacle Smacle:
The shells are a component of a portable military weapon that lobs them at targets up to several hundred metres away."
Hundreds of meters? try 4 kms.
A 120mm mortar has a maximum range of over 7,000 metres!
ridenrain
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:41 pm
The fact that they didn't find a tube gives it a range of maybe 6 feet.
Scape
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Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:50 pm
That's good.... wouldn't want that:
Now imagine if they had this bad boy:
ridenrain
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Posted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:00 am
It's Burnaby... not Iraq. It would go down more like this:
I remember they found some Chinese gangster kid with a Nazi fetish and an MG34/42 on a tripod in some Vancouver apartment and the press hardly noticed. Aside from the fact that, without 1000+ rounds of obsolete ammunition, this would gave been just as useless as mortar rounds without a tube.
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