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General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.
CrashbotUS replied to LoooSeR's topic in Mechanized Warfare
Many memes shall come from this photo.- 1,915 replies
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Played the prologue and multiplayer skirmish just now. Not bad.
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General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.
CrashbotUS replied to LoooSeR's topic in Mechanized Warfare
M110 8" howitzer. No longer is service with the US but several allies still use it. It was being phased out while I was in. Did missions with them in Korea.- 1,915 replies
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General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.
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M109A6- 1,915 replies
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General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.
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M1129 and M1064 120mm mortar carriers.- 1,915 replies
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General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.
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Ammo carriers, FDC vehicles, and command tracks. M992, C2V, Bradley FDCV, M577 and M1068.- 1,915 replies
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General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.
CrashbotUS replied to LoooSeR's topic in Mechanized Warfare
They are basically a base station for mechanized FO teams and meant to put artillery support as an organic part of the maniuever element. Typically one vehicle per mechanized company with a fire support officer attached to the battalion HQ. They carried all the radios (4 or 5) needed for the maneuver elements they supported. One radio for the company net, one on the battalion net, one of the artillery battalion FDC net, and one free for other communications as needed (division artillery, organic fire support like a mortar section, CAS, rotary wing support). They also carried the digital entry devices for secure digital fire missions, a laser range finder/designator with magnification that can be mounted on the vehicle or on the ground. A gyroscope, a GPS systesm, and thermal or FLIR night optics. All of that was tied together by the vehicle to facilitate accurate calls for fire. We didn't have as many guns as you Russians, so we needed to make sure each fire mission counted, so our guns could relocate. I could have everything set up on my OP, range a target with the laser, it would automatically fill in all the parameters (distance, direction, grid coordinates, elevation, etc) for the fire mission. I could then entry the shell fuse combination I needed and transmit that to the FDC through the secure digital radio communications (later iterations went directly to the gun battery computer) and would get rounds downrange. In the early days, the vehicle had to sit still to align the gyroscope and 16 digit grid coordinates had to be entered into the computer manually. That all went away with GPS. Each team had a preassigned code to program into the designator. When we needed precision guided munitions, we would make the call and designate the target for whatever round type we got. If it was a copperhead, the gun crew would dial our code into the fuse of the round so it would only see our laser. CAS and rotary support would program the missile with our code (that we gave them over the radio during the a paricular sequence of the procedure) before they fired it. Of course, when you are not a mechanized FO the job (and the equipement) is bit different. Or was. I'm sure they have lots of small doodads now.- 1,915 replies
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General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.
CrashbotUS replied to LoooSeR's topic in Mechanized Warfare
M981, M7A3 BFIST, M1200, and M1131 fire support/forward observer vehicles. M981 is no longer is service (M113 variant) and I believe the M7A3 has also been retired recently.- 1,915 replies
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General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.
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M270- 1,915 replies
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General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.
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HIMARS- 1,915 replies
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General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.
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81mm and 120mm mortars.- 1,915 replies
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General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.
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M119- 1,915 replies
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General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.
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M777- 1,915 replies
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General artillery, SPGs, MLRS and long range ATGMs thread.
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This is a thread to make me happy.- 1,915 replies
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I pre-ordered the Battlefleet Gothic game. Hopefully it lives up to the trailer.
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Ukrainian Civil War Thread: All Quiet on the Sturgeon Front
CrashbotUS replied to T___A's topic in Open Discussion
So long as I can still order things I need from Ukraine, they economy is working. The postal service on the other hand... -
The Expanse isn't terrible. I really liked the book series and although the show is taking some liberties and mixing things up a bit, it's not bad.
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Not actual vehicles but cool pin-up art none the less. http://www.slavorum.org/russian-army-graphics-by-andrew-tarusov/
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Historical armour testing and information thread
CrashbotUS replied to Toxn's topic in Historical Warfare
His name is Matt Poitras. He's in my fighting group. The guy with the long hair in the other picture is Dave Kilbourn, commander of the Utland Storm of the army of Jomsborg. -
Game does make for some cool screens .
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G6 is a nice gun as well.