Thema:
Laut NYTimes 155mm Projektile flat
Autor: Cerberus
Datum:08.07.23 16:20
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[https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/07/us/cluster-weapons-duds-ukraine.html]

"They are 155-millimeter artillery shells that each can fly about 20 miles before breaking open midair and releasing 72 small grenades that typically explode on impact along the perimeter of an oval-shaped area larger than a football field.

Pentagon officials have said the shells they will send to Ukraine are an improved version of a type used in 1991’s Operation Desert Storm. But the reality is slightly more complicated. The shells being sent to Kyiv can fly farther than the earlier versions, but they contain the same grenades, which had dud rates the Pentagon has characterized as unacceptably high."


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