Re: Smoke Generators

John Atkinson wrote:
>>AJM wrote:
>>Why not use smoke ammunition? 10 points and you get a smoke cloud 2"
>>inches in diameter.
>Limited space.  If I've got, say, five fire missions per RAM Howitzer
>battery (my current standard Artillery Support Vehicle is only size 2)
>then I want to use it to kill bad guys rather than smoke if there is an
>alternative.  Of course, I've usually also got a pair of mortars on the
>table too.

On thinking about it more, the smoke ammunition you're firing out the
back
of your APC/MICV doesn't need propellant charges and so is cheaper, so
only
use 1 cargo point (not 2) and only 5 points for smoke shells, to get one
12"
stream out of the back of your APC/MICV. The smoke stream is as
effective as
your normal artillery smoke ammunition.
    If you want your APCs and MICVs to do what the Bradley MICV can do,
which is pour diesel? fuel on the exhaust pipe to create a cloud of
smoke,
it won't be effective enough to block all sensors, only the Mk1 eyeball.
    I believe that advanced smoke should block all sensors and so
includes
smoke, chaff, noise makers, active emitters of all kinds, and probably
other
things I haven't thought of. Which would mean that it is very bulky.

Andrew Martin
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