Re: RE: [SGII] Fire of AT Missiles at disperesed tagets

At 12:17 AM -0500 1/25/05, Laserlight wrote:
>  > The footage I see from Fallujah and its environs
>>  seems to be about destroying the ability of the
>>  enemy to fight. In fact theres an E5 Marine in
>>  Tikrit that's wanting something more effective
>>  than a 40mm grenade launcher when dealing with
>>  walls and such where Haji's are shooting from
>>  behind.
>
>So "I'm not shooting a missile at a guy -- I'm shooting a missile at
>hard cover which has at least one guy behind it."

That's because you don't have to hit the guy with 
the missile. By virtue of my position at CNN, I 
also saw some footage of a Palestinian that was 
taking pot shots at an Isreali M60. After a few 
shots from the same place the M60 TC wearied of 
the pot shots. So they put an HE round (HEAT?) 
around 5-10 feet in front of the soldier at his 
feet. The footage frame by frame showing the 
tracer element screech across the screen, impact, 
bloom and then obscure the very daft gunman in a 
screen of smoke and debris.

Overall, you're putting the round on a point, not 
on a trooper (more or less). In that case, I'd 
expect the GMS/P guidance system to have a second 
mode for engaging a given point of ground as 
opposed to a heat source/contrasting object.

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