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bluedigger

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1. We have nuclear artillery as well.

Reply to yortsed snacilbuper (Original post)

Thu Jul 4, 2013, 07:37 PM

Jul 2013

We had nuclear shells deliverable by 155mm howitzers at roughly the same range when I was in an artillery battalion in the '80's. We used to joke that the only way we intended to fire them was while driving at top speed in the other direction on the autobahn.

Craziest thing I heard of was from a good friend in the Special Forces. He was trained to carry nuclear mines in a backpack into the Fulda Gap...

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We have nuclear artillery as well. bluedigger Jul 2013 #1

Weird coincidence. I spotted a picture of that monster gun yesterday, wondered what hell it was> leveymg Jul 2013 #2

U.S.A. had a few, some of them could be carried and set up by hand. hunter Jul 2013 #3

my father in law apparently had something to do with the nuclear program after ww2 dembotoz Jul 2013 #4