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Please tell me that's pronounced "Attack-ems"
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
AT-4 isn't a US weapon. Its Swedish.
It 100% is.
I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if it was actually a backronym
It is now.
It always was
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