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PostPosted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:16 pm
 


Title: Bombs found near B.C. high school
Category: Misc CDN
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2009-11-04 20:08:13
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:16 pm
 


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.


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PostPosted: 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.


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PostPosted: 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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PostPosted: 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!


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:41 pm
 


The fact that they didn't find a tube gives it a range of maybe 6 feet.


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PostPosted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 11:50 pm
 


That's good.... wouldn't want that:



Now imagine if they had this bad boy:



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PostPosted: 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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PostPosted: Thu Nov 05, 2009 7:20 am
 


That made my day.


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