Re: DSII for the 2020s

At 11:17 AM 12/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
>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?

Simple you stand behind or off to the side of the main gun or reamin in
the
IFV. or take your chances. keep in mind that when you go into the final
assault when tanks are intermixed with infantry they are using MGs not
main
guns. (though watch out if they see something that scares them.)

Los