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- From: David Emery <emery@dr-no.mitre.org>
- Subject: Re: desert storm operations
- Message-ID: <By6JGq.Iu7@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA.
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:34:02 GMT
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- From David Emery <emery@dr-no.mitre.org>
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- >o The Iraqi artillery using the South African G5 155mm guns had
- > the means to do far more damage to coalition ground forces than
- > they did. The only reason we can conclude they held their fire
- > when we came thru the breaches at 0 hour was they wanted to
- > surrender as quickly as possible.
-
- This is due to a significant effort to target Iraqui artillery. Both
- the air campaign and ground operations before the start of the ground
- war targeted artillery. You may remember some of the pictures of the
- USMC M198 howitzer raids before the start of the ground war. Besides
- this, there were MLRS raids and similar efforts to take out Iraqui
- artillery. Besides targeting the guns, we also hit their command and
- control pretty badly. It's hard for artillery to shoot when no one
- tells them the target...
-
- Part of this is helped by the ability of our Q-36 and Q-37 radars to
- 'talk' directly to the fire control centers digitally. With MLRS,
- it's easy for a radar to spot the incoming rounds, calculate their
- source point, send a message to the MLRS, and have MLRS counterfire in the
- air before the enemy rounds land. (With trained people, this should
- take about 1 minute total...)
-
- The bottom line (as reported by POW interviews) was that the Iraquis
- were often too scared to fire, as they knew they'd get waxed in
- return.
-
- dave
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