Re: Conventional DS2?
From: "Cleyne, Daniel" <DCleyne@v...>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 08:05:00 -0500
Subject: Re: Conventional DS2?
> > 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.
The 77mmL60 (17pdr) did have a HE round, IIRC the firefly didn't carry
it.
Dan