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Old 11-04-2013, 04:11 PM
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So I knew the Army had a drug problem in the seventies...

For your amusement (hysteria) (terror), here's a study on the feasibility of mounting two 105mm howitzers on a CH-47. I don't even know what you'd designate the resulting monstrosity. AH-47? MACH-47?

http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD0750150

(I'd attach it but it's a 10 MB scan of the original document. And archived at a .mil address, so presumably not a prank...)

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