RE: DSII for the 2020s

If, in your combined arms unit, your infantry are
leading the advance, you're doing something wrong.

The armor units are vulnerable to infantry attacks
from the flanks and rear as well as close assaults.
This is what you use your own infantry to defend against.

Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Books [mailto:books@mail.state.fl.us]
Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 11:17 AM
To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: DSII for the 2020s

On  3-Dec-99 at 11:14, Los (los@cris.com) wrote:
> >> 1. If your tanks are firing chemical propellant rounds: The
overpressure
> >> on a 120mm main tank gun can kill a soldier within a ninety degree
arc
> >> out to 200 meters.
> 
> 
> Actually my choice of the word shrapnel is not quite accurate, it's
> basicaly two pieces, the left and right half of the sabot, but it's
just as
> deadly.

This is just my understanding and could be wrong, however,

Vehicles don't survive without infantry support.  So how
does infantry support something that, in order to perform
its mission, may well kill them?

What I'm getting at is how do you escort something like this?
I'm assuming "kill a soldier to 200 meters" also means anyone
within 40 or so meters in any arc is going to at least be 
injured, even if it is just extreme hearing damage.

Roger