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 Nov 5 2006, 10:42 PM
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Great Dragon  Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222  |
If it makes you feel any better, I wasn't at all sure the numbers would look like that when I opened the budget files.
You can find US Army, Navy and Air Forces procurement budgets from 98 to 07 here. Last time M240Bs were procured in large amounts, in FY 06, they cost $9,000/piece, while M249s cost $3,500 and Mk 19s $17,000 per unit. GP bombs are dirt cheap, as military hardware goes. |
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Nov 5 2006, 11:16 PM
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Mostly Harmless Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 937 Joined: 26-February 02 From: 44.662,-63.469 Member No.: 176 |
This is the text that came with the e-mail I got the video in (Aus' link is the video I was talking about).
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Nov 7 2006, 12:56 AM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
With all the new UAV's carrying laser designators now available makes me wonder whether the old Copperhead/Krasnopol laser guided artillery or even Strix mortars might be more viable now since you don't need bods on the ground nearby anymore.
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Nov 7 2006, 01:15 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 932 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Orlando, Florida Member No.: 1,042 |
Hmm. Why not just use truck-mounted guided missiles?
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Nov 7 2006, 02:31 AM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
Could well do, since you could possibly get better range with them. I was just pulling these from memory so I have no idea what sort of price tag per unit you'd be talking about or how effective they might be.
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Nov 10 2006, 12:25 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,556 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Member No.: 98 |
We had a guy in an old SR campaign who was a Mafia driver. Had a nice big limo that he liked to cruise around in (which made it real easy to get the whole crew in the car), and generally was a funny guy.
He also kept a mortar launcher with a 6 shot rotary drum in the trunk. This one time, the crew got pinned down in a motor pool outside of a corporate building, unable to get to a better position because of the amount of fire coming their way. The driver whipped out his cel phone, made a call, and then stuck his MP5-TX up over the edge of the car he was behind and pointed the SMG at the armored vehicle that corporate security was operating out of. There was a momentary whistling noise, and then the laser-guided mortar he'd "called in" from his limo dropped square on the designated spot being projected from his SMG's underbarrel designator. The incoming fire slackened noticeably, probably due to the amount of burning debris all over the parking lot, and the crew made it's escape. |
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Nov 10 2006, 12:41 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,150 Joined: 19-December 05 From: Rhein-Ruhr Megaplex Member No.: 8,081 |
Awesome. I always wanted to do something like this, but somehow it never came up ;).
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Nov 10 2006, 10:00 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 932 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Orlando, Florida Member No.: 1,042 |
Regarding my alternate equipment concept posted earlier in this thread - instead of adding or subtracting DV according to barrel length, would it be better to add or subtract die pool?
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