I know this is a very late reply to this discussion. And just because we used these things one way in a coin fight in the middle east doesn't mean we would have used then in the same way in a peer to peer fight in Europe or Asia. Every single unit on the modern battlefield has a radio, and most have a data link for a reason. But hey they can give it there best, even if there in range of a battery of field gun. I mean maybe there loded out to kill armor, and not optimized for dismounted troops. I'm certain that we've set up our military in such a way that if a pair of AH-64s spot a large number of infantry that absolutely cannot get on the radios and call in a fire mission. That's why we have datalink networks that exist solely to locate and disseminate the location of enemy forces to all elements of the combined arms force. Right, that's way the Kiowa literally has the hardware to sample atmospheric conditions and relay it back to the artillery elements via datalink. They should engage it, if their mission allows it. An SF team in front FLOT, skulking in enemy territory, is a SEAD element. Our ground units are so dependent on air support that SEAD is everybody's business.
Cannon and MLRS field artillery is really good in suppressing battlefield air defense. Sometimes airborne elements need SEAD support. JTAC and FIST call fire missions, FDC distributes actual firing orders, gun laying, munitions, and charge instructions. Attack aircraft, including armed helicopters, are airborne artillery. And, like you stated retired/out of inventoryĢ) While (one of) the Apache digital systems had limited capability to do so (with A LOT of fiddle-fucking) No one ever called for a digital call-for-fire in combat.
after WP splashes and enemy is burning.-ġ) The Apache doesn't provide a 10-digit grid.ġa) High-precision grid really doesn't matter for a Copperhead, as it's laser-guided. Then put WP munitions on target to set everything on fire and smother the enemy in WP smoke. ICM and HE to poke holes in fuel tanks, break formation. In a 'Shake and Bake' fire mission, when engaging soft armor". The above is how it goes in 13F (forward observer) and 13A(FIST) jobs. T2 "SPLASH out" (2-3 second warning before rounds on target.) The above can be voice, but often nowadays as a digital burst message to FDC. ( 10 digit for precision guided Excalibur rounds and now retired Copperhead laser guided projectiles. )Īrmor & troops in open advancing along 'azimuth'. In Field Artillery cluster munitions are referred to as ICM.
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