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- From: "William M. Aldo" <nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil>
- Subject: Sheridan
- Message-ID: <C017Cr.3qw@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
- Organization: NCR Corporation -- Law Department
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 17:31:39 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From "William M. Aldo" <nzt1939@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil>
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- >From ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- >
- >In article <BzEzGt.Fq3@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> dmak@dec5120a.ccs.northeastern.edu (Dave Mak) writes:
- >
- >>The 82nd still uses the Sheridan "Armored Recon Vehicle" with cannister rounds
- >>used as recently as Panama.
- >
- >I think this was the Shillelagh missile. If I'm not mistaken it was
- >fired out of the main gun somehow.
- >
- >What _is_ the Sheridan's main gun? How capable was the Shillelagh?
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- The Sheridan's gun is a 152-mm conventional gun/launcher. The Sheridan's desig-
- nation used to be AARV, I don't know if that has changed over the years or not.
- AARV for (correct me if I'm wrong;-) Armored Assault Reconnaissance Vehicle....
- but then, I guess that could be Airmobile Assault Recon Vehicle.
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- The 152-mm gun/launcher was also the main weapon installed on the sh*tty piece
- of junk that was called an M60A2. At least they wised up for the M60A3 and
- went back to the 105-mm.
-
- On the Cannister/Beehive issue: although they existed for the 105-mm in our
- M60A1, they were not part of our combat load when I was in Germany...not really
- needed at the time. We were more concerned with being outnumbered tank-to-tank,
- so our 63 maingun rounds were HEAT, APDS, and HEP...mostly HEAT.
-
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- "...Hotel Quebec Six Six...You are clear to begin your night run on
- Range Eight Zero....Good luck, good shooting...Tower, out" -- radio
- transmission from Control Tower - Range 80 at Grafenwoehr,Germany (TCQC 8/72)
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