Honest John Missile
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@weaponeer True enough, I didn't mean to say it was entirely impotent.
Its just plain that this thing was developed more as a PR stunt such that the military could appear not to be preparing to put atomic devices in every weapon they could find, and less as a pragmatic tactical solution.
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@Keinlicht keep in mind that SCUD missles such as those from the first gulf war were basically the same thing, and worked far better than you would think. it's not guided, but neither is a howitzer shell (both are aimed). in this case it was an area weapon for dismounted troops after lessons from WWII and Korea. these also get mobility kills on vehicles even tracks by not allowing the driver to see to drive, striping antenna's, and in some cases damaging fuel tanks.
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Thanks fore responding. I value your experienced opinion over the opinion of 18 year old online gamers who don't listen too well when someone with 'real time' experience says something. I guess kidlets only skateboard in realtime these days. :D Merry xmas all! :)
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@eogg25 Yeah, and my point was that the "frag missile" thing is a largely useless replacement for a more powerful warhead, a cheap cover so the military didn't appear to be preparing to use nuclear warheads wherever they could.
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@Keinlicht what i meant was we had an a bomb warheads for the honest john in our ammo dump.
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@eogg25 Yeah thats the point tho, this thing needs some punch behind it to be useful.
The plan for early soviet invasion was masses of BTR-1's attacking, so frag missiles would be useless.
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@Keinlicht We had an a bomb warhead.
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i served in the first unit sent to germany and they were potent, the only problem was after we fired it we were considered infantry.
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Served in a unit shooting the bloody thing. The HE and the "ball-bearing" warhead I have seen what they could do. Remember, in that time most infantery units were transported in trucks, soldiers slept in tent. I assure you they were "bloody" effective, then.
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what is the point of a ballistic frag missile, honestly.
If this thing doesnt have a nuke on it it shouldve been just plain HE or anitstructure. BTR-1's could deal with those pussy ball bearings no problem
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APC´s or not. The damn thing was to inaccurate to hit anything except with a nuclear warhead, so this warhead along with the conventional unitary HE warhead was next to useless.
schr75 3 years ago
They must have just been trying to scare them!
Tumbleweed1954 3 years ago
Problem is that the Soviet Union was to invade western Europe with troops INSIDE APCs, stupid little ball bearings won't do anything to an armored vehicle.
AmericanDreamer1 4 years ago
Effective against troops wearing cardboard boxes.
Tumbleweed1954 3 years ago