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- From: leem@jpl-devvax.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Lee Mellinger)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Ontos
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.145544.20663@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:46:43 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- In article <1992Nov13.191621.16562@ultb.isc.rit.edu> mxb1517@ultb.isc.rit.edu (M.X. Blair) writes:
- :In article <9211121731.AA03799@batcomfs.Eng.Sun.COM> mxb1517@ultb.isc.rit.edu writes: (M.X. Blair) writes:
- :#
- :# Ontos, supposedly Greek for "The Thing", was supposed to be
- :# a highly mobile, lightly armoured, and fast vehicle to do
- :# shoot 'n scoop types of operations. It was a small tracked
- :# vehicle which had not 4, but 6 recoilless rifles. The crew
- :
- : Better check your model - It's four, unless there's a variant
- :I haven't heard of. Got a picture of it in a book of mine.
- :
- : - Mike
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- I have never personally seen the Ontos, however I have seen pictures
- this beast and the ones I saw had six recoiless rifles on them.
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- Lee
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- "Mit Pulver und Blei, die Gedanken sind frei."
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- |Lee F. Mellinger Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA
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