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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (31752)	6/7/2002 12:32:57 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I also bemoan the loss of the Crusader system We need artillery, Hawk, but not a 100 ton unit, transportable one at a time to hardened Euro type airfields. The Brits used to go into Afganistan with "pack" artillery, and that was about the size needed this time. (They got their butts kicked, as did the Russians, but that is another story.) I was in a support unit for the 280mm Atomic Cannon in Europe in 1955, and the Army ran their whole Euro operation around that damn thing. It had a transporter on each end, and the troops used to run it down the Autobahn at 65 miles an hour, with the back unit over in the next lane so that they could see ahead. They would get them stuck on manuvers, and take a week to dig out.

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