{"id":25407,"date":"2023-01-26T19:18:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T00:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=25407"},"modified":"2023-05-13T17:55:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T21:55:05","slug":"weapons-i-have-known-and-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=25407","title":{"rendered":"Weapons I have known and used…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

None of these are mine. But I have and could likely use again, any of these.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

to add…. FNC1-A1<\/s>, FNC1-A2<\/s>, 9mm Pistol, 9mm SMG<\/s> (while M113<\/a> driver)<\/s>, 60mm mortar<\/s>, grenades<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FNC1A1 – main infantry weapon, carried most often (except when M113<\/a> driver or a section machine gunner):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FNC1A1 Rifle<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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FNC2A1 – section (USian: squad) machine gun, 1 per section, so 3 or 4 per platoon (platoon auto was the tripod mounted GPMG, 7.62 NATO, belt-fed0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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FNC2A1 Automatic <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Sterling 9mm SMG – stupid simple submachine gun. Carried when I was an M113<\/a> driver. All drivers carried this, jeeps, trucks, tanks, etc. I think the cooks, clerks, and other Service Battalion folks carried them, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sterling 9mm SMG<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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M72 Light Anti-tank Weapon, aka LAW. Simple, lightweight, but limited damage. I fired ~10 of these, all but one on ranges. The remaining one was in a section attack on a Phantasian Army BMP (in reality, a very well destroyed old car on top a hill…). I hit, perhaps a bit low. But that’s whre the treacks are, and that’s about all this weapon can hurt. This was also the time my earphone (we wore earplugs and earphones when firing these) on the right side was not quite sealed against my ear. I was deafish in that ear for a few days. Hearing test when I was released showed no permanent hearing loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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M72 Light Anti-Tank Weapon, aka “LAW”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Carl Gustav 82mm Recoilless Anti-Tank weapon – platoon-level anti-tank weapon. I fired 5 or 6 rounds on ranges, and was loader (this is a two-person weapon, although could be easily operated by one person) on one “tank ambush” team. We fired 4 rounds, all hits, and managed to get away before being attacked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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M60 Mortar – only fired one of these on a range. Slow enough you can see the round as it goes up and down. The bad guys can probably also see it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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None of these are mine. But I have and could likely use…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[401,40],"class_list":["post-25407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-army-guy","tag-guns","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}