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- From: hhtra@usho72.hou281.chevron.com (T.M.Haddock)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Ontos
- Message-ID: <9211161931.AA15243@usho1d.chevron.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:09:41 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Chevron
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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
- |> # had to leave the vehicle to reload :-). I didn't know they
- |> # used this thing in Vietnam.
- ^^^^^^^
- I think this was the ONLY place they were used.
-
- |> #
- |> # How do I know all this? I had a model of the Ontos when I
- |> # was a kid.
- |>
- |> 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.
-
- Better check your book cause I've got a picture of ME sitting
- on one and it has 6. :)
-
- Of course, the only difference is that 2 have been added/removed
- for whatever reason.
-
- TRAVIS
-
-