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Talk:Klatchian Mist
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The code-name nebelwerfer was blowing smoke. The actual weapon was for firing a lot of small rockets at once. --Old Dickens 03:06, 22 January 2008 (CET)
According to Ian V. Hogg: Twentieth Century Artillery, with premeditated destructive effect! While it could and frequently did fire smoke, that was only one of its many tasks - Hogg notes that the name was a way of getting around the Versailles Treaty provision that barred Germany from having too much heavy artillery. Which brings us round to metaphorical smokescreens again...
