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Great magazine and corrections
Posted by sneakypete134 on Saturday, March 8, 2003 8:28 PM
I hate to write with a correction to anything you do because I look forward to your magazine every month like I looked forward to getting model kits from Revell 50 years ago, with a thrilling anticipation. It's good to know that the thrill of seeing models and anticipating building another never seems to die.
On page 24 of your April 2003 magazine you have a picture by Jim Mesko of a 5th Mech Div tank you say is a M-48 but from what I can see of the rear it has the square grill that usually indicates a M-60. Since I am a grunt you can take that with a bit of salt and maybe ask Jim if I am correct.
On the same page you also have a picture of an Ontos and say it is has "recoilless antiaircraft guns". While the 106mm recoilless rifle was recoilless it was an antitank gun. I never was involved with an Ontos but trained and used 106s 0n singular mounts on a jeep. I believe they were used in the Ontos configuration for busting bunkers in Vietnam. We used it's smaller version, a 57mm Recoilless as an anti personnel gun by loading it with grapeshot rounds. I can't think of anyway they could ever be aimed and traversed quickly enough for use against aircraft plus the backblast (which makes it recoilless) is fearsome.
Charles Bell

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, March 14, 2003 4:43 PM
Hi Charles~

QUOTE: Originally posted by sneakypete134

I hate to write with a correction to anything you do


Not at all! We try to make sure everything is factually correct in each issue, but when we slip up we want to hear about it!

I can see how the Ontos would not not make a great AA weapon.....I was looking for info on it and just couldn't come up with much. Know any good websites that cover it? I'm betting I saw the 106mm and 57mm recoilless rifles when I visited the "Museum of the Big Guns" at Watervliet Arsenal a couple of summers back (it also has quite a few not-so-big guns).....

Thanks for taking the time to get in touch--and let us know how we're doing any time!

Happy modeling.....
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