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Get military hardware description right

The Standard of August 23 published excellent photographs of a good sample of Kenya’s seldom seen military hardware.

However, some of the captions describing the weaponry were wrong. On Page Six, there was a picture of a pair of towed artillery pieces. These are undoubtedly the British built 105mm Light Guns, which fire a 16kg HE (High Explosive) shell just over 17km.

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