Since Rich Willbanks yelled this at Steve Henderson, I hollered this in
response:
SH> The Marines have -never- used the TOW as artillery.
SH> Artillery is, by definition, an indirect fire weapon. The
SH> TOW is line-of-sight only.
RW> Then what is a 155mm howitzer when it is used as a line
RW> of sight antipersonnel weapon? I have heard many a
RW> stories of such things in Korea, Army and Marine guns.
From what I remember of it (it was already "obsolete" when I went in), the
barrel will not depress far enough to even hit the -horizon-.
... Oxymoron: A Little Ironic.
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