Re: [GZG] Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi! - Artillery

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Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Damo <damosan@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 8, 2008, at 7:41 AM, germ@germy.co.uk wrote:
> >
> > In a Sci-Fi planet assault scenario your unlikely to have GPS to
> > rely on.
> > Does modern day artillery without GPS become no better than it's
> > WWII ancestor?
> >
>
> My take is that in a future like that a scan of the planet surface
> would have already been done......allowing ortillery / strikes /
> arty. to range in to within 50 meters.
>

Would it? Might it? Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. You may have a good
map
of the planet, but of the location of the enemy forces?

Mk