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Subject:
RE:Are rolling barages used now days?
Worcester
3/2/2004 1:59:18 PM
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| The favored method (by professional troops) is the silent (night) attack where you move to the start line silently (possibly with diversionary fire) and your fire support commences to neutralize selected targets as soon as you break cover. It is both planned fire (before battle) and directed fire (during battle) - it doesn't roll but it can be switched back and forth by your controllers.
Rolling barrages are better referred to as creeping; the arty like to push them forward and then bring them back to sweep the same ground several times and let the infantry catch up. The problem is this is extremely wasteful of ammunition - much better to have real targets.
The only creeping barrage I worked under was from mortars and that was to lay a mix of HE and smoke. We also used to use our medium machine guns with a different colored tracer for each company to indicate our lines of advance to specific enemy positions when they would switch to the next position or "tactical bound". |
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