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Old 02-22-2011, 02:16 AM
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Originally Posted by WTE_Galway View Post
On the other hand I had a Vietnamese friend who said they found during the war that 3 feet or so of loose "brush" consisting of cut leafy branches one or two inches thick over a trench or pit would not only camouflaged them from helicopters but effectively stopped a lot of rifle calibre MGs.
Actually that is exactly the opposite of what some Swiss tests showed.

They put barricades right in front of trench, but instead of trying to hit into the trench they fired right upon the stuff in front of it. Ammo was 7.5x55mm Swiss.
When they went to check, the targets in the trench were perforated from the debris.
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