• BigFig
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    281 year ago

    Please tell me that’s pronounced “Attack-ems”

    • Primarily0617
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      221 year ago

      yeah it is

      us weapon system names always seem to be jokes

      e.g., the AT-4 launcher is called AT-4 because the projectile it fires is an 84mm rocket, and AT-4 sounds like 84

      • partial_accumen
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        81 year ago

        us weapon system names always seem to be jokes

        e.g., the AT-4 launcher

        AT-4 isn’t a US weapon. Its Swedish.

    • @DontTreadOnBigfoot
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      1 year ago

      It 100% is.

      I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if it was actually a backronym

      • BigFig
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        11 year ago

        Attac’ums, discontinued for their questionable ties to the military industrial complex. Same fate will come for Captain Crunch due to his numerous war crimes while he was in the US Navy