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PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:27 pm 
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Mmmm, not sure if I did right in the linking of the UB16 photo...did what the instructions said, but it may have been for another application. Hope I'm not robbing someones bandwidth or somesuch.

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Tom, is this the photo you're talking about?


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yup!! that's the one!! if the u.s. car makers would add those fringies maybe the economy would pull out of this funk!!!

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brucev wrote:
Tom, is this the photo you're talking about?


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Ahh, that's the larger 32 rocket pod, the UB32.

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brucev wrote:
Tom, is this the photo you're talking about?


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Ahh, that's the larger 32 rocket pod, the UB32.


:shock: I'm going to stick with my assertion of "HOLY CRAP!"

Any footage of the results?

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Any footage of the results?

Ummm, not yet. Since the media coverage is mostly western biased, we've yet to see Gadhafi's facebook page on "greatest hits" the rebels have scored.. :lol: :lol: :lol:

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I'm guessing that to aim it , you close one eye and look down the side,add a little kentucky windage and let her rip! you then go and apologize to the village 2 miles past what you were shooting at. Uh,Sorry. go get a tent from the U.N.

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yes, there was some video last night of them loading and firing it., it did not look like they were too concerned with accuracy while they were scurrying away from the opposing artillery.

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