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- From: "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@oddjob.mitre.org>
- Subject: Re: helos vs tanks
- Message-ID: <BzzCww.rB@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- References: <BzEzGv.Fqw@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 17:36:32 GMT
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- From "Robert I. Eachus" <eachus@oddjob.mitre.org>
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- In article <BzEzGv.Fqw@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> Eugene Heiss (GWD) <heiss@brl.mil> writes:
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- > TC: Range to target
- > Gunner: 1000 meters
- > TC: Forget it
-
- > Cannister is quite effective at close range (150-200 meters) but is useless
- > at the normal engagement ranges for helicopter vs tank (>1000 meters). The
- > japanese had cannister for their 460mm guns which proved to be useless
- > against incoming aircraft.
-
- > I agree, very good at short range but the velocity loss vs range for the
- > steel balls was tremendous. They would never reach the helicopter.
-
- I'll check the effective range on the 90 mm cannister, but I seem
- to remember 1200 yards published, and about that in real use. The
- projectiles were not steel balls but steel rods cut into about one
- inch lengths, and the spin from the shell stabilzed them.
-
- Maybe that's why there is no 120 mm cannister! The projectiles
- could not be spin stabilized.
-
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- Robert I. Eachus
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