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- From: Jim Heath <jheath@fieldofdreams.npirs.purdue.edu>
- Subject: Re: no cannister-was re:tank vs. helo
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- Organization: Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems, Purdue University
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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 17:20:32 GMT
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- From Jim Heath <jheath@fieldofdreams.npirs.purdue.edu>
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- >From article <BzH4v8.AnI@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, by eachus@oddjob.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus):
- >
- > Sounds like the Beehive round that was available for 105 mm
- > howitzers when I was in, but I don't think it was converted for the
- > M-60. I'll check. Beehive and cannister however are different in
- > intended application, the Beehive is intended to cover a wide area on
- > a relatively high trajectory, so the emphasis is on lots of (small)
- > projectiles. Cannister is much more of a low trajectory round
- > intended to clear the field, so it has much larger projectiles, and
- > does a great job of clearing jungle so you can see what is there.
- >
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- I have the impression that there was a Beehive round that was used for
- those occasions when the VC were attacking a position with 105s. They
- seemed to be anti-personnel. One instance I remember reading about was
- the night the first Medal of Honor was won by a Special Forces guy name of
- Donlon (?). In the story I read about it, they mentioned delevating (?)
- the 105s and firing Beehives into the massed VC in the wire. It sounded
- like a _big_ shotgun shell loaded with fletchettes.
- --
- "Land of song, said the warrior bard, Jim Heath
- Though all the world betrays thee.
- One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard, (The Minstrel Boy)
- One faithful harp will praise thee." (Thomas Moore)
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