Forbes: ‘Sci-Fi Awesome’—A U.S. Army Howitzer Just Shot Down A Cruise Missile
A U.S. Army self-propelled howitzer firing a Mach-5 shell just shot down a cruise missile for the first time.
It’s a big deal. Imagine, in some future war, Army howitzers ringing a strategic air base in the western Pacific, swatting down incoming missiles so the base’s planes can take off and land unmolested.
The shoot-down took place at the White Sands missile range in New Mexico on Wednesday. An M-109A6 Paladin tracked howitzer fired a 155-millimeter-diameter hypervelocity shell at an incoming BQM-167 target drone, blasting it to pieces.
“Tanks shooting down cruise missiles is awesome—video-game, sci-fi awesome,” said Will Roper, the U.S. Air Force’s top scientist.
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WNU Editor: Wow!. That is impressive.
Those white supremacists at it again. That missile was probably black. I can just read the headline on CNN: Unarmed black missile shot down by white, armed terrorist sexist supremacists.
ReplyDeletePS the Howitzer operator and first engineer were both black. But whatever, CNN
Fredo? That you?
ReplyDeleteI dunno. 1821 is very near Fredo's bed time.
ReplyDeleteOr that CNN Fredo Cuomo
ReplyDeleteThe left is full of Fredos
A chinese watched and didnt understand
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