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The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed. -- Karl von Clausewitz |
The PGU-23 TP is a low-cost, untraced target practice cartridge, ballistically matched to the PGU-25 HEI round. It complies with NATO STANAG 4173 and can be fired from any system using the M242, KBA, M811, or GAU-12 weapon.
Height (max): 223mm Weight: 493g Number Produced: 210K Birth Date: 1984 Muzzle Velocity (nominal): 1100 m/s Chamber Pressure (typical): 360 MPa Trace (typical): Untraced Dispersion (typical): 0.30 x 0.30 mr Time of Flight (2000m): 3.6 sec |
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1865:
Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |