Although I would have failed the tactics exams of my day had I suggested that using artillery as a sniping tool was a good idea... the times they are a changin'!
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.
Read the rest here, in
the Marine Corps Times.
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Jul 13 2012, 05:56 AM
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