There's a news item and video clip on the UK MoD website for 20 Feb showing three Afghan Army 122mm D30 firing in support of UK marines, having been trained by UK arty.
This raises some interesting questions on the reasonable assumption that they were using predicted fire, which seems likely. Note that Vietnamese arty firing in close support of ANZAC forces in SVN was unheard of and I suspect it was fairly rare for US.
It invites the question about data and methods. For example the prospect of Russian FTs being used seems unlikley, firstly because UK soldiers would probaly have difficulty teaching them and secondly because it would imply the NATO (probably UK in this case) meteor sect proding a Russian met message. The deduction is that there are NATO format FTs for D30 or a computer is being used with aeroballistic data to support the NATO modified point mass model. The last time I heard of western fire control equipment with Russian guns was Iraq using FACE during the Iran-Iraq War. I can't believe this was the only instance.
Any other information anywhere? |