US NAVY has ordered NEW, Armor-plated Cabooses 1st one is VWXX800

[Flintlock76]

54light15

he asked me to see about a .22 Thompson

If I remember correctly (It's been a lot of years) the .22 Thompson shot accurately but wasn't that reliable. 

By the way, the drum mag for the .45 Thompson (the repro) wasn't that reliable either.  Unless it came with the whole package we advised our customers not to bother with it. 

[Flintlock76]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Overmod

Now where did I put that hand-crank mount for the twin 10-22s? 

A surplus ammunition dealer we knew had one of those!  He also had some .22 caliber tracer  ammunition the military used for training purposes.  He told us using that twin 10-22 hand-crank mount with the tracers was spectacular beyond belief!  

[SeeYou190]

I doubt the caboose has much offensive potential at all.

Much more effective, if fighting capacity was a goal, would be a heavily armoured short open topped fighting platform with several mortar tubes... but even that is silly.

All offensive support will be from the helicopter or two operating just over the horizon.

-Kevin

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SeeYou190

I doubt the caboose has much offensive potential at all.

Strictly defensive -- and probably intended to act as area-denial should any high level of force come to be used.  Closest thing to an offensive weapons system a caboose like this would be involved in would be something like an updated Peacekeeper Rail Garrison system -- for you model railroaders, here's some idea how to run one:

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/d1/da/43/5a110157fdee67/US4896580.pdf

but, as you might expect, even easily man-portable PGM could easily toast it within seconds...

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SeeYou190

I doubt the caboose has much offensive potential at all.

Strictly defensive -- and probably intended to act as area-denial should any high level of force come to be used.  Closest thing to an offensive weapons system a caboose like this would be involved in would be something like an updated Peacekeeper Rail Garrison system -- for you model railroaders, here's some idea how to run one:

https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/d1/da/43/5a110157fdee67/US4896580.pdf

but, as you might expect, even easily man- or drone-portable PGM could easily toast it within seconds...