ras@mtuxo.att.com (Richard A Stewart) (02/15/91)
From: ras@mtuxo.att.com (Richard A Stewart) In article <1991Feb13.220740.4885@cbnews.att.com> ron@mlfarm.com (Ronald Florence) writes: |According to popular journalistic sources, the Gerry Bull-designed |155mm and 210mm howitzers -- which are used by the Iraqi artillery -- |have greater range and accuracy than any other weapon of comparable |caliber, including the artillery available to U.S. and other Coalition |forces. How much better are these bull-designed artillery pieces, and |what accounts for their superiority? The PBS FrontLine program which aired earlier this week (in NJ) covered the life, work & assassination of Gerry Bull - improvements to howitzers & shells, the space guns, earlier German work, his really big guns - the last project being for Iraq ...