Re: Hammer's Slammers

On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Christopher Weuve wrote:

> BTW, I think it was _Rolling Hot_, which, IIRC, is also the book where
the 
> green crew accidently fires the anti-tank smart artillery shell at
their own 
> tanks...

Yes, or actually they accidentally fired an AT shell that wasn't quite 
smart enough... i.e. they didn't aim for the friendly, but the shell 
picked it up. I don't recall why IFF or similar didn't work.

Rolling Hot is also one of the few stories where combat cars go against 
"real" armored vehicles (and win). 

It's actually a bit funny. Slammers is all about panzers, right? Well,
if 
you look at it, the majority of the stories actually concern infantry or

combat cars. 

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