Some good ideas, any chance some or all will be possible or likely do able? I know from past history, politics and short sighted people often make bad decisions based on cost, or political or lack of vision.
M4 Sherman tank, ok if it was to do what tanks had been seen to be c.1930, support of infantry, a way and means to protect them or provide some artillery aupport but not one on one and like..Or why many died quickly when they went up against "REAL" tanks. Upgraded and it took time, the Super Sherman and the M10 and like and then the new M26 and like at the end, but by that time.. well.. An 88mm from a Tiger/Panther and like, makes them die fast. only saving grace was speed to get away and beign diesel, they did not normally cook off like a gas powered tank might go.. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: Abrigon Gusiq To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 2:42 PM Subject: Re: Re: Jump Infantry/Mechare: Near Future MTOE Sadly true, light to go up and then down and then be fast not strong to go in and do the job? More use of UAV and like assets. For recon and support. Some casualties do they really need a helo to evac them or ... Repeater/Retrans can be a UAV. Over flight, yes best it be General Ox, but UAV is cheaper? High weapons platform, nice if it was a Helo or Puff, but cost, training and number of assets means it easier and cheaper to use that UAV or like? Seen te new Dirigible for the US Army? Yrs, fast to react to the threat at hand, such as "Sir we have contacts, outside the solar system, coming in fast, we believe them to be aliens" . helps if we already have fore knowledge of them coming, or have friendly aliens who help us with intel or ... ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Kilahc To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 5:47 PM Subject: [wargame-creators] Re: Jump Infantry/Mechare: Near Future MTOE Seems to me a fairly huge subject, and largely premature. Are we talking about deploying from space? It seems to me there is not going to be any Orbital Assault (OA) forces for a while. The reason is that the transition from orbit to surface has to be done very quickly because AD will have a lot of time to lock onto the very hot delivery systems ('drop ships'). Uusually the descent has to be fairly gentle as can be seen from the Space Shuttle reentry. Of course this exposes the force to VH/H altitude interception. If its a Rapid Descent Assault (RDA), then all that energy generated by atmospheric friction would need to be either vented, or absorbed. The later is preferred since surplus energy is an asset, but there is no superconductor technology yet, or even as horizon-tech. Powered armour can be used for the troops to alleviate their vulnerability from enemy heavy forces, and this would benefit from the surplus energy mentioned above to power-up the armoured suits during descent. This is beneficial in two ways: no need for onboard energy storage and less need for mobility platforms. Also, power-suited troops can fight in a swarm which makes them a far more elusive target on the ground. Also, the powered suits can be deployed at altitude to allow quick troop dispersal otherwise the LZs are going to be fairly easy to find if the 'drop ships' actually have to land. Even without need of runway, consider the area required for a squadron of a dozen Mi-26s, and then I'd say double it! Any vertical insertion is by definition supposed to light and quick. Don't need any heavy ground manoeuvre elements. If power suit design can handle missiles, medium mortars and say HMGs, thatâ?Ts all thatâ?Ts needed to secure objective/destroy target. Missiles are both direct anti-armour and artillery support, mortars are indirect. HMGs are longer ranged ball penetrators/sniping support. I think IF there are any vehicles coming down, they have to be at most the lightest of designs like the 'Mule' for stuff like comms and other bulky tech which is not part of basic combat load for a power suit. Greg http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Poetry-L/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adulthumor-L/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Abrigon-World/ http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/StargruntsOOC/ _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[email protected]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
