They don't get many do they? I've never seen a video showing barrage fire in such a situation - or in any, come to think of it. Open fields. Infantry forced out of their trenches somehow. You'd think natural targets for a barrage but I don't think I've ever seen one.
And the question of artillery accuracy today is kinda tremendously relevant but we get little or no coverage of it. Or I don't anyway. Please link me to some if it is there.
Best I have been able to find out - and I'm still searching - generally there is a zone within which all the rounds will fall and it is far from being a pinprick. No. At 5000 m range it could well be 200m x 200m sort of, I think. Actually it would be a rectangle, longer than wider.
But the point is they fire a round from 5km away and it could fall anywhere within a 200m square shall we say.
Well what chance of hitting a tank? A small platoon of 10 soldiers? Even a column of vehicles speeding down through that area?
So I would expect far more 'barrage' fire. Many guns, whole batteries, all firing at once. Kaboom. Saturate that 200m square.
Maybe they do that.
But you know what? I have never seen any suggestion of it much less a video.
If you have, then please provide the link.
That's unguided standard artillery of course. But that's the majority of the 'artillery superiority' the allies are supposed to have.
They don't get many do they? I've never seen a video showing barrage fire in such a situation - or in any, come to think of it. Open fields. Infantry forced out of their trenches somehow. You'd think natural targets for a barrage but I don't think I've ever seen one.
And the question of artillery accuracy today is kinda tremendously relevant but we get little or no coverage of it. Or I don't anyway. Please link me to some if it is there.
Best I have been able to find out - and I'm still searching - generally there is a zone within which all the rounds will fall and it is far from being a pinprick. No. At 5000 m range it could well be 200m x 200m sort of, I think. Actually it would be a rectangle, longer than wider.
But the point is they fire a round from 5km away and it could fall anywhere within a 200m square shall we say.
Well what chance of hitting a tank? A small platoon of 10 soldiers? Even a column of vehicles speeding down through that area?
So I would expect far more 'barrage' fire. Many guns, whole batteries, all firing at once. Kaboom. Saturate that 200m square.
Maybe they do that.
But you know what? I have never seen any suggestion of it much less a video.
If you have, then please provide the link.
That's unguided standard artillery of course. But that's the majority of the 'artillery superiority' the allies are supposed to have.
No matter who the enemy is, it is hard to watch men die.