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Old May 16th 04, 03:49 PM
Leslie Swartz
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Dave:

Saboted flechettes would be much, much less accurate and precise than a
..50 BMG round. CEPs in sniper variants of 10" out to 1000 meters do-able
(but certainly not from a UAV!) for the .50; notch that up at least one
order of magnitude (yes, 100") for a saboted flechette.

Steve Swartz


"Dav1936531" wrote in message
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From: Steve Hix NVALID


Jim Yanik wrote:
If the crowd of jihadis is milling around and carrying prohibited

weapons
like RPGs,why not just drop a 250 lb. blast-frag bomb on the crowd?

Everyone
there is supporting the jihadis.

Hardly. Quite a few locals are fed up with the jihadis, particularly al

Sadr's
mob.

I think he meant "everyone (in the direct vicinity of the weapon carrying
jihadis) there is supporting the jihadis".

And while that is probably true, reports from the Fallujah siege indicate

that
the gun toting trouble makers tend to hide behind women and children. The
Marine snipers reportedly were extremely valuable in that fight, due to

their
precision in avoiding civilian casualties. In such circumstances, a 250

lb.
might be a PR disaster.

Consequently, I was wondering about the possibility of a Predator as sort

of a
sniper platform. It was just a thought, but I am starting to think the

required
level of precision hitting the target would probably be

unattainable.......at
least with a .50 BMG round.

Now a tungsten flechette fired from a sabot gun....that might just do the
trick.
Dave



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Old May 16th 04, 02:06 PM
phil hunt
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On 16 May 2004 02:29:41 GMT, Dav1936531 wrote:

Consequently, I was wondering about the possibility of a Predator as sort of a
sniper platform. It was just a thought, but I am starting to think the required
level of precision hitting the target would probably be unattainable.......at
least with a .50 BMG round.

Now a tungsten flechette fired from a sabot gun....that might just do the
trick.


While a high-velocity sabot gun would have a longer range, it
wouldn't solve the problem of pointing it in the right direction.
(And the longer the range, the more accurate the pointing has to
be).

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