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more from my museum! from left: 40mm L70 HEI-PDX M811 (whew!) That translates as High Explosive Incendiary, Point Detonating, Projectile, Experimental.. next we have the HE-PFPX M822, or... High Explosive Pre-Fragmented Projectile Experimental, ya ta da... Both of these were develpoed for the ill-fated and screwed up Sgt, York anti-aircraft tank... whatta dud that was...next a dummy round, and then a WW2 Bofors Hi-Ex Base Detonating round for the Navy, and finally, a High Explosive Incendiary round fired from the numerous 40mm cannon on the AC-130 Spectre gunship.
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well, what it's muse really was, was the Soviet ZSU 23-24 Shulka, but it used 23mm cannon (four of 'em) and worked quite well based on the numbers of our aircraft hit by them whilst flying low in Viet Nam. The York was a great idea bloated by over thinking the system and adding all kinds of goshwow widgets that bogged the system down, and made it fire at bathroom circulation fans and ignore aircraft.... then whilst firing at a real target the computer saw the casings ejected from it's own cannon, mistook them for incoming shells and shut itself down because it was "dead"....!
Good gun hardware, way behind the times computer hardware, Windows quality software. Of course, it didn't really run under Windows, but it was such an incompetent software design that you would have thought that Microsoft wrote it.
DOD should have offered a $10,000,000 prize each year for 10 years for the best software. The target discrimination problem was far simpler than the software required to guide an autonomous vehicle from Mojave to Las Vegas, and a few megabucks of prizes got that problem solved in just a few years.
DOD should have offered a $10,000,000 prize each year for 10 years for the best software. The target discrimination problem was far simpler than the software required to guide an autonomous vehicle from Mojave to Las Vegas, and a few megabucks of prizes got that problem solved in just a few years.
colors are ammunition type specific. For example, yellow and red signify high explosive and incendiary. Blue means practice or dummy, non explosive, other colors, especially on Navy munitions, declare whether or not the round will explode on it's own after a predetermined time (self-destroying), or if it is a tracer round, etc....
It's 40-Miller Time! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-zbmA-dw4Y
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