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To: unclewest who wrote (109579)4/16/2005 8:11:17 AM
From: Hoa Hao  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 793725
 
Yeah, I understand they made a special 50 cal. tracer round to match the flight path of the 106 recoiless round. My Marine buddy told how he saw one of these use the 50 to align six 106 to take out a sniper in VN once. Bet you could've used a couple at Ben Het:

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To: unclewest who wrote (109579)4/16/2005 8:24:03 AM
From: haqihana  Respond to of 793725
 
uw, The only things we called recoilless rifles, were mounted on the back of jeeps, and used what looked like a small artillery round.


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