What's the combat theory behind partially hiding your tank behind a small wall of dirt? The words "sitting duck" roll through my head looking at that; yet I see pics like all the time.
it provides cover typically the berm though covers everything but the turret. With the frontal arcs of turrets of tank usually having the thickest armour, such a concept makes sense; Smaller target, harder target ext... The idea is during a defence battle you would have multiply pre-planned battle lines (think cold war going hot in German) with pre-built or pre-sized out locations for infantry, arty, armoured ext... The idea is the tank unit can fire off a salvo of rounds get a couple of kills cover the retreating infantry then pull back themselves to a new line.
We call it Turret Defile, makes the smallest target while allowing full use of the weapon system of the vehicle.
We have vehicles made to produce "Hasty" versions of these, for a Adhoc defense; we used them in Afghanistan a few times, with great success, very few RPG's found their way to our armor vehicles and the few that did normally hit the dirt; followed by a quick response of 120, 7.62, and .50cal
What's the combat theory behind partially hiding your tank behind a small wall of dirt? The words "sitting duck" roll through my head looking at that; yet I see pics like all the time.
ReplyDeleteit provides cover typically the berm though covers everything but the turret. With the frontal arcs of turrets of tank usually having the thickest armour, such a concept makes sense; Smaller target, harder target ext... The idea is during a defence battle you would have multiply pre-planned battle lines (think cold war going hot in German) with pre-built or pre-sized out locations for infantry, arty, armoured ext... The idea is the tank unit can fire off a salvo of rounds get a couple of kills cover the retreating infantry then pull back themselves to a new line.
DeleteThat makes sense I guess. It's like building the Maginot Line out of mobile artillery.
ReplyDeleteWe call it Turret Defile, makes the smallest target while allowing full use of the weapon system of the vehicle.
DeleteWe have vehicles made to produce "Hasty" versions of these, for a Adhoc defense; we used them in Afghanistan a few times, with great success, very few RPG's found their way to our armor vehicles and the few that did normally hit the dirt; followed by a quick response of 120, 7.62, and .50cal