str00pwafel

@str00pwafel@lemmy.world
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Sorry about your grandmother, but Mitch McConnell falling down a flight of stairs would be a benefit to the entire nation

Yeah he's got the exhaust-end of the launcher rested against his shoulder, so when it launched, all that heat and pressure was directed at his shoulder

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"Mach 10 missle" lol okay

Isn't that a power that every for-profit insurance organization has?

Should be Ricky from Trailer Park Boys

HIMARS is just the vehicle, GMLRS is the munition, and they are not anti-aircraft

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Baked meams

This is specifically about the DPICM rounds:

https://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/mlrs.html

"The original M77 has a relatively high dud rate (about 5%), and the M85 is a derivative with a self-destruct fuze to lower this rate significantly (< 1%)."

We consider 5% to be a high, unacceptable dud rate. These submunitions were reworked to improve that to less than 1%. For each rocket dispensing 544 submunitions, less than 6 would be duds on average. I think cluster munitions have gotten a bad rep overall (not that it hasn't been deserved) but you're right, this is apples to oranges.