[sci.military] Tank barrel LGB's

JANDERSON%WILLIAMA.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu (Jim Anderson) (04/17/91)

From: Jim Anderson <JANDERSON%WILLIAMA.BITNET@mitvma.mit.edu>


This ought to get things rolling.  The local Albany, New York newspaper
reported a few weeks ago that the Watervliet Arsenal in suburban Albany
provided several tank barrels to a west coast contractor and that these
were the devices used to take out the bunker in Baghdad.  The article
stated that the Arsenal was provided with the laser-seeker heads and
"tail-fin units" which they attached to the barrels.  Ordinance was loaded
by the contractor.  Anybody out there pick up on this?  As a sideline, the
local media continually report that the barrels the arsenal make are used
on the M1.  Is that correct?  I was under the impressing the MG on the M1
was German made.

Jim Anderson
Williams College
Williamstown, MA (via Albany, New York)