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Daniel Brown/Business Insider: This is the huge M777 howitzer that US Marines burned out while fighting ISIS in Syria
FORT BLISS, Texas — US Marines fired so many M777 howitzer rounds in support of Syrian Democratic Forces to oust the terrorist group ISIS from Raqqa that they burned out two barrels.
"They fired more rounds in five months in Raqqa, Syria, than any other Marine artillery battalion, or any Marine or Army battalion, since the Vietnam war," Army Sgt. Maj. John Wayne Troxell, a senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told Marine Corps Times at the end of January.
"In five months, they fired 35,000 artillery rounds on ISIS targets, killing ISIS fighters by the dozens," Troxell said.
Business Insider got to see one of these M777s, often referred to as the "Triple 7," during a recent trip to Fort Bliss.
Here's what we saw.
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WNU editor: You are in trouble when this happens .... An Army sergeant explains why you don't want to see the massive M777 howitzer lowered all the way down (Business Insider).
4 comments:
Shows a lack of decent ammunation. Considering the Syrian and Iraq war vs ISIS was faulting before the Russians helped. Americans effectiveness needs to be questioned and if they fired that many shell it shows a huge lack of accuracy. Considering Vietnam was a war and this is shooting fish in a barrel.
Well-trained crew could potentially use direct fire ,the Marines just to do drills for this.
Did they kill dozens of ISIS fighters with each shell or on total? If on total the process must be considered a complete failure.
You don't want to see the howitzer lowered all the way because it's firing flechettes at that point.
http://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/12/flechette.html
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