{"id":193986,"date":"2008-11-02T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-02T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/02\/israeli-120mm-mortar-carrier\/"},"modified":"2008-11-02T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-02T22:09:00","slug":"israeli-120mm-mortar-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/02\/israeli-120mm-mortar-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli 120mm Mortar Carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img262.imageshack.us\/img262\/8696\/f0bebe5342e7484897b54b5cs9.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" \/>It&#8217;s called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3A31057682-754d-498c-94eb-37644e33e553\">CARDOM<\/a>, and it&#8217;s based on the M113 APC.<\/p>\n<p>It includes digital systems to lay the mortar on target in less than 30 seconds from receipt of coordinates, and then can fire with a burst rate of 16 rpm, followed by a sustained rate of 4rpm.<\/p>\n<p>I will simply note that it does everything that the Future Combat Systems NLOS-M (<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">N<\/span>on-<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">L<\/span>ine-<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">o<\/span>f-<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">S<\/span>ight <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">M<\/span>ortar) does in a lighter, and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">much cheaper<\/span> package.<\/p>\n<p>This stuff isn&#8217;t rocket science, so why is the US military paying rocket science prices?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s called the CARDOM, and it&#8217;s based on the M113 APC. It includes digital systems to lay the mortar on target in less than 30 seconds from receipt of coordinates, and then can fire with a burst rate of 16 rpm, followed by a sustained rate of 4rpm. I will simply note that it does &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}