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Something you should not use to prop up a M60

BOMBSaway1980

BOMBSaway1980

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out on the range the other day i spotted a 2.75 HE warhead being used to prop up a M60 tank.
 

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  • but worst of all olive green with the words HE, WARHEAD, AND Rocket.jpg
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OK, I can see that it is the top half of a 17 lb warhead broken in half as they quite often do, or a 10 Lb warhead, and the fuzewell looks broke off also. So is the Comb B4 still inside, or is it burned out?
 
luckly it wasn't fuzed, but they used a 165 hesh to hold up the other side
 

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