Saturday, September 2, 2023

Artillery. Bringing dignity to what would otherwise be nothing but a vulgar brawl.

 



15 comments:

  1. This how Badgers do it.
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fC3zrvzgEIo&pp=ygUhdXNzIHdpc2NvbnNpbiBmaXJpbmcgMTYgaW5jaCBndW5z

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  2. Artillery: for when you really don't hit the actual target but drop one in "close enough" and call it suppression...
    RetRsvMike

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    1. Maybe in the 1960s.
      Not so much in the 2020s.

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  3. King of Battle - on time, on target despite rain, sleet or snow

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  4. And the recently retired US Marine Commandant $hit canned all towed artillery from the USMC because the (wrongly) reasoned that if the Marines needed artillery the US Army could provide it mostly because the (idiot) Commandant replaced it with drones.

    UN - f*ckin' - BELIEVABLE!!!

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    1. what ? in damn near every war since ww1 over 70% of all wounded and dead are from artillery or mortars

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    2. The ex-Commandant played video games and was under the impression that artillery and tanks are things of the past. He thought that drones, missles and other "modern" $hit would win wars.

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  5. I had a Brit tell me that Americans carpet bomb an area with artillery before they send in ground troops. I told him superior firepower needs to be taken advantage of.

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    1. I read someplace that in WWII, if you weren't sure who occupied a particular piece of ground, you could easily find out by firing a few shots at it. If you got a large volume of machine gun fire back at you, they were Germans. If you got a large volume of rifle fire, they were Brits. And if you didn't get anything at all for a few minutes and then got a massive artillery strike, they were Americans.

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  6. German 88 in that mix.

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  7. Yeah, well, I never came under artillery fire, but I've been mortared and been under 122mm rockets and I don't remember anything dignified about it.

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    1. The dignity rests entirely on the side with the artillery, not those it's directed upon.

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  8. Green peppers and cucumbers make me repeat like a howitzer.

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  9. Fire for Effect!

    Strange, artillery is recognized as an indirect-fire weapon. German 88mm was developed as an anti-aircraft direct fire weap. Somehow it performed very well in direct-indirect rolls including as a main-gun for tanks.
    An old 81's guy here, still fondly recall days humping a 'tube.

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  10. The seeds of today's detached video-game warfare.

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