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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
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Subject: Re: counterbattery (was: 50 Years Ago)
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Date: 28 Jan 91 03:53:31 GMT
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From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)

jl3p+@andrew.cmu.edu (James Ting Lui) writes:
| -How effective has the counterbattery artillery been?  I would think
| that in todays hi-tech era, you could put the counterbattery on auto &
| have a salvo launched before the enemy salvo landed.

  Alas, it only helps if your artillery has the same range as the other
guy's.  In the Gulf the Iraqui artillery has between 10km and 10mi extra
range over ``ours''. They're using Gerald Bull's ``base bleed'' shells.
We're not.

--dave
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