o/t(ish)...rewatching Jericho, spoilers ahoy

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for you T2k nuts who somehow DIDN'T see it...


anyway, spoiler space...



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There's an episode where the "army" shows up, a unit of perhaps a dozen or so soldiers accompanied by an M1. They tell everyone in the town that the country is rebuilding, that the nations responsible for the attacks were retaliated against and destroyed, etc. If you've seen it, you know how it goes down - Jericho winds up with its own M1 which gets used at the end of Season 1 (and has a few seconds in season 2).

Anyway.

The one use of it in a real combat sense is firing one round, but it's established when the tank shows up that it is completely out of ammo. So the good people of Jericho use the main gun tube to fire their one mortar round, convincing the neighboring town that the tank is combat capable and driving them off (for a bit).

Would it even be possible to gooseneck or sabot a mortar round (assuming it wasn't already a 120mm round which given that the round itself is shown - it was stolen from the enemy town's ammo factory and looks to be a 60-80mm round) to do that? I mean, ignoring the obvious ballistic characteristic differences.

Obviously I think what the writers did was say "Okay, a mortar is like a cannon, right? And an M1 has a cannon on it, right? So therefore..."

Personally I think it was beyond lazy; simply saying the M1 had one round of ammo left would've been just as effective.