Re: Hammer's Slammers [VERY LONG POST!]

On Aug 19, 1997 at 2:25:13 AM, Mikko Kurki-Suonio <maxxon@swob.dna.fi>
wrote:

> How useful LOS range is, is another thing. It depends very much on 
> terrain. We chuckled at the Gulf reports of 4+ km hits on Iraqi tanks
-- 
> in Finland, you're hard pressed to find 1km unobstructed LOS in rural 
> terrain. 

Yeah, NATO armored forces drive tanks with engines designed for Germany
and 
guns designed for the desert.  This is one of those dirty little secrets
of 
the Cold War years -- the extra range of NATO weapons was one of the 
qualitative features designed to neutralize WTO quantitative
advanatages, yet 
chances are we wouldn't have been able to use the extra range in
northern 
Europe.

BTW, I think it was _Rolling Hot_, which, IIRC, is also the book where
the 
green crew accidently fires the anti-tank smart artillery shell at their
own 
tanks...

-- Chris Weuve	 [My opinions, not my employer's.]
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