Lunatic Retard Robots
25-08-2004, 18:22
OCC: Why do I even bother...
IC:
With the emergence and proliferation of high-technology main battle tanks like the GT-6 and others, the LRR military forces see it fit to survey their anti-tank capability to make sure that right-wing or radical left elements armed with many advanced main battle tanks cannot outdo the defenses.
Provided that an invading force manages to land in LRR (probably using the small window of favorable weather between late may-mid august), they would encounter terrain similar to the scottish highlands.
http://www.stat.ohio-state.edu/~brian/hobbies/travel/pics/scotland.jpg
Typical LRR landscape.
Armored formations will be channeled into the valleys between the high hills, unconquerable by tanks, and difficult to attack with infantry. Yet anti-tank teams deployed in BV-206TR tracked carriers can climb most hills in their vehicles, and fire AGM-114 II and Spike ER missiles down into advancing columns.
Anti-tank missile teams operate as part of the infantry divisions, and are usually three-person groups equipped with a Bv-206TR, which mounts a two-missile AGM-114 II launcher. While almost unarmored, these vehicles can climb steep hills and are very difficult to spot, with a low thermal, acoustic, visual, and radar signature. Usually operating in teams of four or five vehicles, they would set up ambushes for advancing enemy armor, and quickly take up a new position after the two ready missiles had been launched.
T-SEP armored personnel carriers form the base of the LRRA infantry divisions, with each division equipped with 400 such vehicles, plus ambulence and AMOS mortar variants. The Fire Support variant (one per 5 regular variants) is designed to ward off tanks at long range, equipped with 2-4 AGM-114 II missiles and 2 Spike ER missiles. While not as mobile as the light carriers, they are far more mobile than tanks, and are very stealthy and reliable. If they ever have to engage tanks in close combat, they carry a high-velocity 40mm cannon, which, when armed with APFSDS, can penetrate tank armor at 1.5km.
Regular APC variants carry, in addition to the 14.5mm KPVT, a spike ER launcher, with a range of 8km. This enables lowly APCs to destroy even the best tanks before they can strike back.
Infantry divisions are very well trained in anti-tank tactics, in addition to regular infantry training. On the squad level, there are usually one or two MBT-LAW short-range ATGMs, and on the platoon level there are two or three Spike-MR medium range ATGMs. This coupled with their training gives LRRA infantry units excellent anti-tank utility.
(More to come later).
IC:
With the emergence and proliferation of high-technology main battle tanks like the GT-6 and others, the LRR military forces see it fit to survey their anti-tank capability to make sure that right-wing or radical left elements armed with many advanced main battle tanks cannot outdo the defenses.
Provided that an invading force manages to land in LRR (probably using the small window of favorable weather between late may-mid august), they would encounter terrain similar to the scottish highlands.
http://www.stat.ohio-state.edu/~brian/hobbies/travel/pics/scotland.jpg
Typical LRR landscape.
Armored formations will be channeled into the valleys between the high hills, unconquerable by tanks, and difficult to attack with infantry. Yet anti-tank teams deployed in BV-206TR tracked carriers can climb most hills in their vehicles, and fire AGM-114 II and Spike ER missiles down into advancing columns.
Anti-tank missile teams operate as part of the infantry divisions, and are usually three-person groups equipped with a Bv-206TR, which mounts a two-missile AGM-114 II launcher. While almost unarmored, these vehicles can climb steep hills and are very difficult to spot, with a low thermal, acoustic, visual, and radar signature. Usually operating in teams of four or five vehicles, they would set up ambushes for advancing enemy armor, and quickly take up a new position after the two ready missiles had been launched.
T-SEP armored personnel carriers form the base of the LRRA infantry divisions, with each division equipped with 400 such vehicles, plus ambulence and AMOS mortar variants. The Fire Support variant (one per 5 regular variants) is designed to ward off tanks at long range, equipped with 2-4 AGM-114 II missiles and 2 Spike ER missiles. While not as mobile as the light carriers, they are far more mobile than tanks, and are very stealthy and reliable. If they ever have to engage tanks in close combat, they carry a high-velocity 40mm cannon, which, when armed with APFSDS, can penetrate tank armor at 1.5km.
Regular APC variants carry, in addition to the 14.5mm KPVT, a spike ER launcher, with a range of 8km. This enables lowly APCs to destroy even the best tanks before they can strike back.
Infantry divisions are very well trained in anti-tank tactics, in addition to regular infantry training. On the squad level, there are usually one or two MBT-LAW short-range ATGMs, and on the platoon level there are two or three Spike-MR medium range ATGMs. This coupled with their training gives LRRA infantry units excellent anti-tank utility.
(More to come later).