[ARC5] Torpedos....

[Jay Coward]

Yea, like the M-16 fiasco in the Vietnam War. One cleaning rod for five weapons and the wrong powder causing expanded shells jamming the weapon, 'cause they already had a contract for other powder. Yuch!
I tried to enlist but was 4F.Thank GOD. Remember those who did not come back from any of our forays into foreign affairs this July 4, 2013.
 Jay


-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth G. Gordon <kgordon2006 at frontier.com>
To: Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net>
Cc: Arc5 <Arc5 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Tue, Jul 2, 2013 5:36 pm
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Torpedos....


On 2 Jul 2013 at 14:04, Robert  Eleazer wrote:

> But on the other hand,  it was amazing how fast a team of scientists -
> many of them right out of school - and combined with US industry -
> came up with a war winner of a weapon, the air dropped acoustic homing
> torpedo, to attack U-boats. It sank a sub on its very first combat use
> - which occurred while the USN was still bickering internally over the
> RI factory's faults.  And then they went on to fix the RI factory
> weapons and design new superior ones.

Yes. But in the meantime, our men died and opportunities were lost. I agree 
with you: the entire RI delegation should have been tried for treason...and 
everyone connected with them too.

What a total scandal. It was disgusting. And similar things are happening 
today...of course.

Ken W7EKB
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