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2011-03-16 Science & Technology

M777A2 Artillery Accident At Ft. Bragg Wounds 8 Marines and 2 Sailors

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Posted by Anonymoose 2011-03-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Bless Our Soldiers.

Posted by newc 2011-03-16 01:57|| 2011-03-16 01:57|| Front Page Top

#2 FTA: "The training has been rattling houses in Fayetteville since it began. The 155mm ammunition causes loud explosions and reverberations upon detonation"

Somehow I expect the folks that live next to an artillery range expect some "explosions and reverberations". Twit.

Not much detail. Bad fuse or ? TBD....

Posted by tipover 2011-03-16 13:49|| 2011-03-16 13:49|| Front Page Top

#3 I can well imagine "Ft. Still CSI" are going to examine every bit of that gun, and that lot of artillery rounds, though my guess is that they were firing Excalibur rounds through it, and something went wrong with its electronics. Perhaps even a static charge was built up.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-03-16 15:41|| 2011-03-16 15:41|| Front Page Top

#4 It is pretty unlikely they would use real Excalibur rounds in training. They cost tens of thousands of dollars each. It very well could be a bad fuze, but a training failure resulting in an unsafe condition seems most likely. Hopefully the issue will be quickly identified and prevented in the future.

Posted by rammer 2011-03-16 20:32|| 2011-03-16 20:32|| Front Page Top

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