Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: a historic event in air warfare? Message-ID: <1991Feb7.014140.2333@cbnews.att.com> Date: 7 Feb 91 01:41:40 GMT References: <1991Feb6.031914.21019@cbnews.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.att.com (William B. Thacker) Organization: The Boeing Co., MMST, Seattle, Wa. Lines: 29 Approved: military@att.att.com From: bcstec!shuksan!major@uunet.UU.NET (Mike Schmitt) > From: James Pilcher > 1) after the battle of khafji, a ten-mile long convoy of > tanks, troop transports and vehicles was reported headed > towards khafji. last i heard, it was stopped dead at the border, > by our air power. is this not a unique event in military > history? First, consider the fact that a battalion-size force conducting a tactical road march or movement to contact will have a column extending 25 kilometers. The 'standard' tactical distance between vehicles is about 50 meters on the march (though things do tend to bunch up a bit). Therefore, a "10 mile convoy" really wouldn't be that much. I would not think stopping a convoy by air is all that unique. I don't have any specific examples off hand. Depeding on the terrain and road network - a convoy could be stopped by destroying the first tank, destroying a key bridge, cratering the road, mining the road - all sorts of ways. Lot's of "convoys" were "stopped" by air along the Ho Chi Minh highway network - mainly with AC-130 gunships. mts