[cornhusker100]

Well that's a bucket list item, especially with the m8 still included with it!

 

[lysander]

Check this out...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recoilless_rifle
They can kill you if your standing behind it when it goes off, They had a RR that fired a atomic round called "The Davy Crocket"! Supposedly the blast zone was bigger then it could shoot so it was fired by remote control or a timer IIRC.

eQ

Myth.

The nuclear warhead of the M28 and M29 "Davy Crockett" had a yield of 20 tons.

The M28 had a maximum range of 2,000 meters and the M29 had a max range of 4,000 meters.

Can you survive an explosion of 20 tons of TNT if you are 2,000 meters away? Of course you can. The 2020 explosion in Beirut had an equivalent yield of 1.1 kilotons of TNT, the Davy Crockett's yield is 1/50 of that.

"Nuclear weapon" does not always mean total destruction everywhere.

((Yes, you might have fallout issues if the wind is wrong, but fallout does not mean instant death. In fact, it doesn't always even mean sickness.)

 

[lysander]

You may be correct, but if memory serves, I believe it was 75mm. A bit heavy, but very effective, kind of like the M14...

The US Army fielded the M18, 57mm Recoilless, the M20, 75mm, the M67, 90mm, the M40, 106mm, the M28 & M29 Davy Crocketts, and the M3 84mm Carl Gustav.