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Originally Posted by copeab
SPGs are probably rarer than tanks -- as big as a tank, as slow as a tank, but not as well protected as a tank -- as SPGs would draw more air strikes than tanks (an infantryman has *some* chance of killing the tank rumbling down the street towards him but *no* chance of killing the howitzer firing on him 15 miles away). Towed howitzers, while more vulnerable to counter-battery fire, might be more common.
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Fair points, Brandon. I agree that SP gun attrition would be high early in the war.
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Originally Posted by copeab
Lets not forget AAA -- a 40mm Bofors without working radar can still shoot up ground targets like trucks, horses and infantry.
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No doubt. A Vulcan, Gepard, Shilka, Tunguska, etc. would be absolutely wicked in the anti-personal mode. This would be pretty much their only role by 2000. Once again, though, considering the massive quantities of ammo they go through, the main problem would be keeping them "fed".
Apparently, the ZU-23-4 Shilka was the weapon most feared by the Chechnyan fighters during the fighting in an around Grozny during the First Chechnyan War, moreso than tanks, tube or rocket artillery, or any kind of aircraft.