According to the FM-100 series, Soviet SP guns can be moving within 2-3 minutes. Towed guns are moving within 10-15 minutes.
But what everyone forgets is that the Soviets possessed so much artillery that they outgunned NATO somewhere around 4-1 (overall, at the point of a breakthrough, 10-1 would be more likely), so they had the ability to engage frontline targets AND counterbattery; where as NATO has to make the choice to engage attacking targets OR counterbattery. Not only did the army artillery groups (AAGs) have counterbattery missions, but the divisional MRL battalion was considered to be the best counterbattery tool, not only by dumping 1,600 rounds of 122mm HE onto a grid square, but by being able to dump chemical weapons onto that same target.
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The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.
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