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Yeah its Non-Nuke about as true as the 13K published ranges on the rockets and the
70-80k's on the ATACMS.....A/38th FA RSK.......
Grid Killers are smooth....Once in White Sands they put an ATACMS motor on a rocket body the Civi Techs claimed that it went Orbital....Just because we dont know about the nukes doesnt mean its non-nuke...just my .02 ......I have never seen a nuke for the SPLL but I have never seen a terorist before either
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Actually, published range on the M26 rockets was 30K (right out of the TM), and the extended-range rockets were good for 50K, I think. I have no doubts that the actual figures are more like 40K and 65K, but that would be speculation. ATACMS block 2, IIRC, had a 200K published range, which to me means 200 [i]miles[/i] in the real world.
I used to play around with the Fire Control Panel a lot while training my driver and gunner and we'd input technical fire missions with different azimuths, QE, and fuze times, but the problem was it didn't tell you where the target grid would be for that fire mission. In general, a QE of about 20 degrees/360 mils would give you the longest range, assuming you adjusted the fuze time to match. It'd be interesting if MLRS had firing tables like cannon do.
I've always wondered if there were "warshot" PLU tapes in the comsec vault, that would allow the FCS to take advantage of the rockets' max physical range. We were still using Version 4 FCS software during Desert Storm (A btry 13th FA, 24th Inf Div (Mech)) so there was no way to change the software at our level.