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Forget UPS: the MPS, the Marine Projectile Service, delivers some lovin’ from 22 miles away
A Marine unit that recently returned from Afghanistan killed a team of Taliban insurgents with a record-setting artillery strike.
Golf Battery, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines, out of Camp Pendleton, Calif., dropped the 155mm M982 Excalibur round on insurgents 36 kilometers away — more than 22 miles — in Helmand province. The strike was launched Feb. 12 from an M777 howitzer on a mountainside at Forward Operating Base Zeebrugge, in Kajaki, to neighboring Musa Qala district, Marines said.
A gliding artillery shell. Pretty neat stuff.
Military Thingies | Mr. Bingley | 
July 2, 2012 9:16 am
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Nice!
A vast improvement over that seventy thousand dollar piece of crap Copperhead round.
“…candygram for Mr. Mongo!”
When you really want to make their day (end) nothing beats artillery.
We used to be able to do that with battleships…
Did you see the footage from Al Jazeera on it?
Not surprising. Since when has Golf Battery ever needed a Mulligan?
Son’s Army with an arty MOS. Last time home on leave he told me a bit about the 777 gun and the new shells; effing incredible, for range, guidance and accuracy.