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60 Tons Of Shotgun From Two-Feet Of Death

I have often pondered about the strengths of the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank on this blog - I have used this wonderful, 60-ton toy as an agitprop for numerous idiotic rants.

Well, the Abrams is fighting back. Yes, our friend Gunner at Target Centermass has tipped off your Sergeant Major of the Armchair Commando Brigade of Aurora, Colorado to an interesting story about the adaption of the Abrams to a city-fighting mission. This story, oddly enough, comes to us from the ever-liberal-leaning USA Today website. Here's a paragraph:

"The Army also has tested and is preparing to issue, for Iraq and Korea, a new round for the tank's main gun for close combat. Current rounds are either high explosive or armor-piercing shells. The new round turns the Abrams into a giant shotgun, blasting 1,100 tungsten pellets at a time out of its 120mm barrel."

Sounds like a barrel of laughs at parties.

This reminds me of my Tuesday plinking expedition with my miscreant Brother-In-Law, Bob. Bob's kind-of a non-conformist, and a very interesting guy. if you've a conspiracy theory, Bob's got an ear for you.

Recently, Bob became a gun owner, and wanted to test out the new gear in the foothills of Colorado north of where we live. As a target, Bob procured a dress-fitting dummy that was sitting in a trash can - this torso-shaped thing on a stand makes an ideal target. We unleashed with 3" magnum rounds - my wrist is still aching from the shock - and here's the result:

I learned a great deal about the phenomenally destructive power of shotguns that day (they are two-feet of death), as did both Bob and the manniquin. Now, that lesson will be taught with frightening efficiency to the Islamofascists who like to kidnap and kill women, courtesy of the the M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank.

I doubt they will much enjoy the 60 ton shotgun on tracks coming down the streets of Mosul this spring.

posted by: underwhelmed at March 31, 2005 16:03 | link | comments (3) |

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#1  01 April 2005 - 20:52

 

It's about time they brought back the anti-personnel round. We had them M60A3's, except they fired flechettes, not pellets. About the same difference though. On the M1A1 we didn't have them and all of us missed the king sized shotgun. Sweetness.

Eric

ecowper

#2  03 April 2005 - 13:48

 

Ah, the cannister round. Been around since the Civil War era, and still worthy of use today.

Lookout, the world's largest people killer is coming to town, LOL.

Anonymous

#3  04 April 2005 - 05:59

 

That's just awesome! Probably used to be if you got close enough to a tank the only thing you had to worry about was the machine guns...not anymore

Anonymous

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