There were Vickers being used at the Jungle Warfare Centre at Canungra in Queensland as of 1991 (when I was there). They provided live fire battlefield noise simulations - fired on fixed lines over the top of us while we were assaulting a position with blanks.
I still have painful memories of that little exercise - the platoon before us had managed to set the grass on fire and the entire range was still smouldering with ash and cinders everywhere. There's nothing like the feeling of burning grass stubble impaling your forearms while you're crawling along choking on ash and smoke!
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If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.
Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"
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