Ignoramus15795 wrote:

What I am wondering about, is why did the military scrap them.

The military periodically test fires munitions that are in storage as a QA
step. You really don't want long shots or short shots from artillery. It
can ruin your day.

One example is the risk of colateral damage, another is if you are walking
fire with troops behind the barrage moving a head and the third would be
firing *close* to friendlies as in ahh ****, help us out, the enemy is
right on top of us.

Wes