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Message no. 1
From: Mike Ruane <Nethicus@***.COM>
Subject: the BM-27
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 11:44:40 -0500
*****PRIVATE: Underworld Opera Advisory Committee
>>>>>[The Bm-27.
The BM-27 is a truck-mounted rocket launching system carried on an old Zil
manufacutred truck (and we all know how well Zil makes their trucks). The
compliment of rockets could be launched in 15 seconds. A compliment of
rockets for one of these babies is 16 rockets.

Name Handling Speed B/A Sig APilot Cost
BM-27 4 20/60 3/0 1
0 80,000
Seating: Bench up front for driver/Commander, 2 Benches in back for loaders
Access: Two doors on side of cabin, open topped loader seats
Fuels cons: 37 km/L
Fuel Cap: 500 L
__________]<<<<<
-- Andi Forbes (21:40:45/3-6-56)
Underworld Opera
Message no. 2
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: the BM-27
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 12:12:58 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Underworld Opera Advisory Committee
>>>>>[This thing, like most Eastern-European stuff, is worth drek. The
launcher is nice, but the truck itself sucks really bad. My advice: take the
launcher off and mount it on something like an Ares RoadMaster.

Hey, how the hell do you get rockets for your nice 100-year-old
launcher anyway?]<<<<<
-- Gurth (11:06:39/3-7-56)
Message no. 3
From: Inquisitor <ESPD92MS@****.ANGLIA-POLYTECHNIC.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: the BM-27
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 15:51:00 GMT
*****PRIVATE: Underworld Opera Advisory Committee
>>>>>[You're wrong, Gurth old boy. My unit and I used the BM-27 to great
effect
against some ill-prepared Aztlan forces. The splinters that they send out mean
that, despite them being highly innacurate, they cause high numbers of wounded
which means that the enemy are too busy tending for them to be able to mount a
properly coordinated attack. They are, however, very lighlt armoured and have
no NBC capability or any defensive capabilities (they only fire indirectly).
As to where you can buy missiles, many countries make them under
licence.]<<<<<
-- Inquisitor (15:50:50/7-3-56)
Message no. 4
From: Mike Ruane <Nethicus@***.COM>
Subject: Re: the BM-27
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 11:28:37 -0500
*****PRIVATE:Underworld Opera Advisory Committee
>>>>>[And many black market sources make rockets as
well....]<<<<<
-- Gomer (09:23:34/3-7-56)
Message no. 5
From: The Wyrm Ouroboros <oroboros@******.COM>
Subject: Re: the BM-27
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 12:53:33 -0800
*****PRIVATE: Underworld Opera Advisory Committee
>>>>>[ Ill-prepared, my arse, Inquisitor. Your unit may have used your old
BM-
27's to 'great effect', but you also lost six out of eight vehicles to the
measely counterattack that did get coordinated. To anybody going up against
these old gulag machines, remember that the gas tanks are really lightly
armored, and stuck right behind the driver's compartment. One or two shots
and she brews up right nicely. ]<<<<<
-- Xenophiliac (22:07:39/7-5-56)
Message no. 6
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: the BM-27
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 12:55:42 +0100
*****PRIVATE: Underworld Opera Advisory Committee
>>>>>[I still stand by my statement that the truck sucks. The launcher is
quite good, as far as I'm concerned, but I'd mount it on another vehicle if
I were you.]<<<<<
-- Gurth (11:15:07/3-8-56)


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Message no. 7
From: Inquisitor <ESPD92MS@****.ANGLIA-POLYTECHNIC.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: the BM-27
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 1995 19:36:00 GMT
*****PRIVATE: Underworld Opera Advisory Committee
>>>>>[Hey, Xenophiliac, you might have torched six vehicles but, adding the
casualties you received in the first barrage to that badly ordered counter
attack, the amount of damage that we caused in both _HIGH_ numbers of wounded
and KIA, along with the drop in morale and increase in men with shell shock,
six vehicles is a cheap price to pay. Note, you only got six, how come you
let the last two get away. The 6/66 Division (Mercenary) is the best and
Mexico will be free from the tyranny of Aztlan>!<<<<<]
-- (Major) James Campbell, 6/66th, (19:40:45/8-3-56)

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