To: eastforker
Anti-tank guided missile.
Not sure how it fits in his tagline sequence.
He doesn't need HEAT and ATGM.
(Maybe the ATGM is inbound ...)
Besides, just call SABOT and go for a kill on the first shot
26 posted on
10/21/2003 7:42:47 AM PDT by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitor)
To: Blueflag
The command after the ammo selection is to identify the target.I was a tank commander in the early seventies,we didn't have guided missles on the M-60,I'm sure things have changed a great deal.
27 posted on
10/21/2003 7:49:04 AM PDT by
eastforker
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To: Blueflag
The target to be engaged is an ATGM. HEAT (High Explosive Anti Tank) is the type of main gun ammunition the tank commander wants to use.
38 posted on
10/21/2003 8:21:28 AM PDT by
Cannoneer No. 4
(Gunner, HEAT, ATGM . . .Identified. . .FIRE . . . On the Way . . . BOOM . . . Target, cease fire)
To: Blueflag
He calls himself a cannoneer, which suggests he's an artillery gun bunny rather than a tanker or cavalryman. Artillery does have HEAT rounds for some field howitzers (105mm, 155mm??), but does not use SABOT, that's only a tank main gun munition fired from a gun, not a howitzer or even gun/howitzers. The US Army artillery hasn't employed a gun since the 175mm was retired (which did not have SABOT rounds)
From the Blockhouse on Signal Mountain, right 100, drop 50 and Fire for Effect!
60 posted on
10/21/2003 12:13:01 PM PDT by
CatoRenasci
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