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To: archy

AH yes, the ill-fated Sgt York System.

The ADEWS (think, SLC-32 on a stick) part had to have been the worlds largest bullet magnet.

Working in a 500KW (ERP) emitter on a modern battlefield is a death sentance.


46 posted on 03/25/2008 10:42:41 AM PDT by ASOC (I know I don't look like much, but I raised a US Marine!)
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To: ASOC
Working in a 500KW (ERP) emitter on a modern battlefield is a death sentance.

The Israelis figured that out a lonnnng time ago, even back in the days when they adapted AGM-45 Shrike HARM missiles for ground launch and fitted them on the back of obsolete Sherman tank carriers.

Of course, tank crews who used their Zenon IR searchlights for target designation during nighttime tank gun fights didn't do much better, the Israelis being among the first to remove the ones aboard their tanks after they learned the lesson in the 1973 Yom Kippur war.


48 posted on 03/25/2008 10:58:01 AM PDT by archy (Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
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