Re: Jets Vs Vtol

At 8:47 AM -0500 9/30/99, devans@uneb.edu wrote:
>***
>Fratricide (as a military term) is defined in FM30-100 (operations) "as
>friendly
>casualties to personnel or equipment incured due to mistaken blue on
blue
>enagegements. Friendly fire and fratricde are one in the same. In fact
>friendly
>fire is used more commonly than fratricide in militray circles. It
soudns
>like
>you're trying to distinguish between equipment and personnel losses?
>
>Los
>***
>
>Just to be pedantic, fratricide would be equivalent to LOSSES due to
>friendly
>fire. I gather that sometimes you get lucky and can duck friendly fire.

First place I heard of fratricide in a military sense was in ICBM 
tactics. It was part of the dense-pack deployment theory for, IIRC, 
the Minuteman. Apparently in a dense-pack deployment the first ICBM 
incoming throws off the targetting solution for the next few missiles 
incoming (heat, blast, radiation etc). The solution is to stagger 
your arrival times, but this allows the defender to get a launch off. 
Anybody care to correct my memory ?

>I thought fratricide was more intended for intentional kills, such as
the
>Vietnam era 'fragging', but I thank you for getting me clear on this.
>

There's something that'd make an, er, interesting optional rule for
SGII....
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