Re: Armored cars / unarmored antitank vehicle rules questions [TANKS][TANKS]

[John De Villiers <bbj-at-plz.co.za>]

106mm, now there is something i havent heard about for a while. I used
to fire these jobbies on during my national service. Me being a big boy
i got to haul the "wheelbarrow" around.

The 106's we used didnt lob its round at a tank, it shot it dead
straight at over 2km. Normally with a tungsten dart that went in the one
side of a tank and came out the other. The idea was to disable the
motors by piercing holes in them. 

Of course once you fired the thing everyone in the area knew exactly
where you were. The 106 has a huge backblast leaving a nice big cloud of
smoke & dust pointing towards your exact location. For that reason they
were often mounted on willys jeeps and other smallish fast 4x4 type
vehicles. 

Our harbour patrol boats ( Namakura ) can also carry a 106 on a
centrepost in the back.

The 106 uses a browning spotter gun that the guy behind the trigger uses
to "check" his range and direction. The normal procedure for firing the
thing is, 2 x spotter rounds and then the main round, but the guys got
so good at it, that they'd sometimes fire the main gun before the
spotter even hit its target.

During the Angolan war the tank crews got to know what that single
"ping" on the side of the tank meant, so as soon as a spotter round hit
the tank, they'd bail out. This lead to another development. The guys
would shoot at a tank with an R1 ( just one shot ) and the tank crew
would reckon theyre in the sights of a 106 and bail out, only to run
straight into waiting ground forces.

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 03:41, jtsumrok-at-comcast.net wrote:

> Examples:  US M274 "Mule" w/106mm recoilless rifle, WW2 British 2-pounder portee, 
>Australian Landrover w/106mm recoilless rifle