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To: Tailback

I thought that bunker busters were like gigantic howitzers dropped, that will penetrate as far as they can into whatever, then they blast a projectile even further...


14 posted on 08/22/2011 7:35:54 AM PDT by Bon mots ("When seconds count, the police are just minutes away...")
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To: Bon mots

Earlier versions of BBs were indeed manufactured from howitzer gun tubes and modified to penetrate-as to any use of a cannon barrel to actually fire another projectile after it pentrated, I have not heard that, but it is a novel idea....


18 posted on 08/22/2011 7:41:45 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" (my spelling is generally korrect!))
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