During Desert Storm, the Iowa class battleships would send drones out for ranging information. Iraqis would try to surrender to the drones rather than face a salvo of 2,000 pound HE shells.
Yes, it's old technology, it's expensive, yada yada - but I still think we should keep them around.
Just in case...
Truly amazing. And the shell gets there long before the sound. My Dad told us about avoiding heavy Artillery in WWII. "You'd see a black dot in the sky, then wait a second or two to see if it was drifting right or left. If all it did was get bigger you ran like hell."
ReplyDeleteIn a large part of the world, we're battling people in mud huts with automatic rifles. There's nothing wrong with older technology, as long as it works.
ReplyDeleteMy brother was stationed on a DDE during a naval gunfire training exercise in the late sixties. A heavy cruiser with 8" guns was firing; he said even that was horrendous.
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