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And some were remarkably effective. Don't know I recall this correctly or not, but the BLU-92 was a tricky devil. Trip wires w/30 day time fuse. Put pressure on the wire, BOOM. Relieve pressure on the wire, BOOM! Stellar way to stop foot traffic on the jungle trails it was. Parts is parts.

And ya, flechettes are fun too.

I knew flechettes were used in Korea but wiki says back to WW1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flechette

Post this on Archery Talk and someone will argue the Rage is better! lol

I fired a few flechette rockets myself. We weren't supposed to have them or use them, but we weren't supposed to be in Cambodia either!

I have some sample flechettes around here somewhere. Anybody want a few as conversation pieces? Assuming I can find them, that is.

Also used some CBU in 'Nam. Not the time delay kind - and I forget the BLU number - but the baseball-sized ones that went off at impact, 200 or so of them in a bomb case that opened after it was dropped and spread the bomblets over a wide area. The oddest thing: to me orbiting above, it sounded like a long electric-like buzz when they went off. They'd really rip up a truck park and enemy troops.

Edit: Found the flechettes. (Weird the things one hangs onto for 50 years...) PM me to get 10 each.

Love that guy. "This knife will keeeeel"

In recon the point man often carried a thump Gun w/ a flechette round loaded. The 105s used flechettes in direct fire for close in defense, both worked well. A cluster of charging booger eaters getting shredded by a 105 is a site that will make your heart sing.


mike r

Using a missile is probably better than risking the lives of troops [duh] Real time intelligence must be acted on very quickly.


mike r

There's airstrikes and then there's airstrikes. A solo drone firing one missile is an airstrike. So is a four-ship of B-52s loaded wall to wall with 500 lb-ers.

In this instance, a drone operator in an air-conditioned trailer located half a world away saw the minivan in his optics, ID'd it as a bad guy probable, got the kill order in seconds, and squeezed the trigger. Whoosh.

We should launch pigs through the windshield.

I think they were just dropped out of Airplanes by the thousands

This looks fun

What is the advantage of slice n dice over a ‘splosion?

Ability to recover intel?

Minimize collateral damage, mentioned in OP.

People don't respect people that care about CD.