dano1917
RIP
Here in the U.S. what it means to have cable TV is that instead of 4 channels with nothing on you get 100 channels with nothing on! Anyway this afternoon I was watching Ice Road Truckers on the history channel and it was about truckers delivering supplies to the North Alaska Oil Fields on the "Kamikaze Highway", and the dangers faced by these truckers. Well one of the big dangers faced was avalanches, and many truckers were stranded, injured or killed due to them. About 5 years ago they came up with the idea to mount a 105mm recoilless gun to a semi trailer right before trucking season and spot out potential avalanches and fire a 105mm reciolless shell at the problem area to create a controlled avalanche before trucking season. Well they were interviewing one of the crew and he said all the shells are Korean War surplus, with all of them being dated 1952, and in his 5 years at the job not one shell has failed to explode. They showed the shells and they are nice with the "swiss cheese" shell case and all. Anyway I thought it to be a little interesting....Dano