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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity

Just curious --- what the heck is a "mortar rocket" ?


2 posted on 08/19/2005 6:16:07 AM PDT by hombre_sincero
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To: hombre_sincero
I don't know, I always thought that mortars and rockets were different things. Maybe the article was supposed to say "mortar or rocket".
3 posted on 08/19/2005 6:25:19 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity ("A litany of complaints is not a plan." -- G.W. Bush, regarding Sen. Kerry's lack of vision)
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To: hombre_sincero

Ther mortar is the weapon (ordinance), the rocket is the projectile with a rocket driver.


16 posted on 08/19/2005 7:12:04 AM PDT by FFIGHTER
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