122mm rockets

[QRQ 30]

Shifting to 2.75 in rockets I'll bet some of the chopper crews can come up with some horror stories re: fins hanging up in the tube,

NAB: If I am correct you need to talk to someone closer to the game. Rucksacks have no weight or ballance or center of gravity in a picture. Personal preference rules but take the advice and experience from those around you.

[ktek01]

Originally Posted by QRQ 30

Rockets are an area weapon. Normally, to be effective they are fired in salvo. The NVA did fire single rounds hoping to hit something. Indirect fire weapons are not fired at point targets. Mortars are similar. To hit a target you fire for effect, not single rounds.

Some things never change, single shot, last year in Iraq. No injuries, some minor equipment damage.

[CommoGeek]

I have video shot by a TACP/ ETAC/ JTAC/ EIEIO at Orgun-E of a rocket attack in broad daylight. POO was on one of the ridges south of the FOB, impacts were all over the place: 3 in the camp, 2 elsewhere in the perimter, 3 or so outside the wire. 13 series had some fun with the counterbattery. I'd upload it but the whole thing is 4.5 mb.

They are scary, but a great deal of luck comes into play with them. Big earth, little bullet/ rocket and all that.....

[Viking]

The pics above look like a 107mm. I will take a 107 anyday over a 122. The 107s you can hear coming in. A buzzing sound. You can actually tell by the buzz how close it's going to be. The 122s are a lot faster and don't really make as much noise. Also, in my experience, the 122s frag pattern is a lot worse than the 107s. The 107s I've had shot at me splinter into larger peices. The 122s frags are smaller and spread more. The 122s here are pretty damn accurate. I've seen 4 inside the wire shot from 28kms away. Accurate in my book. I hate those dudes.

[EchoSixMike]

Yep, they look like Chicom 107's. We got hit with those fairly often too, well until the 155's really got rolling on counter battery anyways. Had one on Nov 11 that came in just over the Hesco inner wall, hit the concrete vehicle pad broke up without detonating and hit a Sgt from Comm plt in the leg/ass. Just heard the other week he was walking again. Have not seen a whole lot of 122's around N Babil, probably because they can't just lay it on the berm and light it off as easily as the 107's. The unit previous captured a 122mm improv launch assembly using tubes cut off a BM-21 or similar launcher, a lot of fabrication work went into that, and they're too big to move fast enough to easily get away from counter battery fire. But they were not shy about using the warhead sections for IED's instead S/F....Ken M

[freds4]

Unfortunately I have a lot of experience with this nasty weapon. In Iraq they were fond of firing them from an improvised launcher in the back of a pickup truck. Launch and go. As already stated, not very accurate but they made up for it with numbers and did considerable damage. If they hit soft dirt, the effects of the shrapnel were greatly reduced but if they hit concrete, the results were devastating.

[Lancer33]

We used to get hit with them a couple of times a week at Camp Evans. Just a couple. You can hear them comming and you were real glad that there was a bunker right outside the hooch door.