Re: Conventional DS2?

Nick Meredith wrote:

> It all appears to come down to a matter of choice - specialisation or
> generalisation, but I suspect that another reason may have been the
> spuuly of 17dr guns and munitions. To introduce these into US
> production would have been a major change, whereas the long 75 & 76mm
> guns were a much smaller change.

I'll have to check on monday, but I'm pretty sure the artillery part of
my EOD training featured a 17pdr HE-T round. The T(racer) shows that it
is designed to be used with guns who have a line of sight to the target,
they're no use in artillery weapons. I'm not sure about 17pdr weapon
platforms in use at the time, but it seems a HE round did exist.

Ludo