Talk:120 mm BAT recoilless rifle

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umm expand this(Uber555 03:25, 18 February 2006 (UTC))

umm, you find the material and put it in yourself. Incidentally, I am removing the "Popular Culture" section. Wikiepdia discourages them (for good reason), and the reference is actually a single thought by the protagonist (before Shannon and his men go ashore in Zangaro, an African doctor who had accompanied them said "God go with you". Shannon thought (but didn't say) he'd prefer a WOMBAT. CMarshall (talk) 04:09, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Another pop culture reference occurred in Doctor Who: The War Machines, Episode 4. Set in London in 1966, in one scene a British Army Lieutenant says that "We've got some WOMBAT missiles coming up" when facing an attack from a 'War Machine' robot. AusTerrapin (talk) 06:55, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Split or expand?
We ought to do something to cover the BAT, MoBAT & ConBAT as well as the WOMBAT. What's the best way? Separate articles for each (which we can hardly support at present), or expand under one article and rename it to something appropriate for the series - with appropriate redirs for each model. Andy Dingley (talk) 18:41, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
 * indeed for expansion a rename (move to more inclusive name) makes sense. The series are all Battalion Anti-Tank so I suggest a name based on that. Worst case BAT weapons of the UK? GraemeLeggett (talk) 20:04, 24 December 2010 (UTC)


 * BAT anti-tank weapons maybe? I think the anti-tank aspect is more significant than the UK. Were they used outside the UK at all? Andy Dingley (talk) 21:00, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

Yes, the BAT series got around. There are pictures of WOMBAT in use at Suffield training area in Canada, and accounts of MOBAT and WOMBAT in Hong Kong. MOBATs were deplyed in the Borneo confrontation in 1964 and the Gurkhas took their WOMBATs to the Falklands in 1982, but as far as I am aware they never fired a shot with them. IIRC the Berlin Brigade kept WOMBAT well into the MILAN era due to its utility in urban combat. The Australian Army had the original BAT but phased them out quite quickly replacing them with the US M40 106mm recoilless rifle. BTW, I have edited the part about WOMBAT replacing the MOBAT and CONBAT in 1964, because the TA had [b]both[/b] MOBAT and CONBAT as late as 1980 and probably until replaced with MILAN. For examples see this page: http://www.gcompany.org.uk/1980%20Warcop.htm http://www.gcompany.org.uk/images/1980s/LSR00593.jpg There is a pic on that site of a MOBAT at a Highland Gathering in 1976. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.145.222.17 (talk) 19:54, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

Renaming
It seems like this page hasn't been renamed yet. I agree with Andy from 2010. Any other thoughts? Techhead7890 (talk) 00:57, 29 October 2015 (UTC)

Magnesium
Are there any cites for this backronym that date to its time of service, or is this entirely a foamerism? Earliest cite I've found is '91, debunking it. Anmccaff (talk) 22:34, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * So you're repeatedly deleting this claim "it's a backronym" because "it's only a backronym"? I've seen your editing before, I'm not going to waste time arguing  when I know you're just going to edit-war anyway, but seriously?  You don't think this term has had currency for as long as the Wombat was around? Andy Dingley (talk) 23:11, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Passing over (heh) ypur praeterition, the original edit removed a flat out assertion that "Weapon Of Magnesium" was an official name, so there isn't any "repeatedly" involved here. Your edit restored the term, with an accurate description of it as retroactive folk etymology. Should that be in the article? Maybe, if it was widely-held army folklore while the weapon is in service; probably not, if it's mostly fanboiist cruft from later. Anmccaff (talk) 23:51, 10 February 2018 (UTC)