RPG Forums

Go Back   RPG Forums > Role Playing Game Section > Morrow Project/ Project Phoenix Forum

Reply
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #61  
Old 03-03-2016, 11:21 AM
mmartin798 mmartin798 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Michigan
Posts: 659
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Project_Sardonicus View Post
nb The Israelis in the 1980s added laser homing kits to their TOW missiles and bigger engines then called them LAHATS. The SADF bought them, copied the design etc and called them Ingwes and used them to destroy many SWAPO/Cuban tanks. So this hobby craft approach to improving on primitive weapons isn't so unusual.
You are pretty much describing APKWS. It is a guidance module that is placed between the Mk 60 motor and the warhead/fuze assembly. It is not much more complicated than screwing APKWS to the motor and the warhead to the APKWS.
Reply With Quote
  #62  
Old 03-03-2016, 05:53 PM
ArmySGT.'s Avatar
ArmySGT. ArmySGT. is offline
Internet Intellectual
 
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 2,412
Default

Um........MLRS can shoot rockets one at a time if desired. The rockets themselves are pretty precise with the launcher knowing it location with GPS and inertial navigation. MLRS has more options than submunitions and the ATACMS. Further, most modern anti tank submunitions steer themselves toward large metallic heat sources.

Further, MLRS is used for counter battery fire and more importantly the "Deep fires" missions that the large 203mm guns used to perform........ hitting when the other guy can't hit back and raining hell on his rear area concentrations or movement corridors.

Last edited by ArmySGT.; 03-03-2016 at 06:14 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #63  
Old 03-03-2016, 05:58 PM
ArmySGT.'s Avatar
ArmySGT. ArmySGT. is offline
Internet Intellectual
 
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 2,412
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by .45cultist View Post
And was a part of some Green Beret camp equipment in Vietnam. I would like a more varied mortar section, and stuff like this for special groups. The M102 would make quite a dragon for the team to slay. An M226 60MM mortar has a place in light team's special item list.
Probably why it is used extensively by the KFS.

One of the major problems for the French and later the Americans in Viet Nam was the soviet supplied 130mm D-30 howitzers.... Getting hit and you can't hit back because the other guy can shoot further and accurately too ....... well, that really, really pegs the suck-o-meter at maximum.
Reply With Quote
  #64  
Old 03-03-2016, 06:13 PM
ArmySGT.'s Avatar
ArmySGT. ArmySGT. is offline
Internet Intellectual
 
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Colorado
Posts: 2,412
Default

Battery fire / Counter Battery fire works in two scenarios..... their tubes fire first or yours fire first.

Their tubes fire first....... preferable... You get all yours to fire back.

You fire first......
Your self propelled is moving immediately upon completion of their fire mission....... towed is waiting.... tied with counter battery radar. When the enemy fires his counter battery mission , your towed fires theirs in counter-counter battery. MLRS is in the commanders tool box with two important missions....... immediate suppression and counter battery fire. The MLRS in counter battery is excellent. The basic package outranges most gun artillery and with the larger affected impact area doesn't need precision to be overwhelmingly effective. You're raining mixed AP and AT submuntions (some with internal guidance) onto a 1km by 1 km square.

Immediate suppression is to disrupt or delay and enemy breakthrough of your own positions again by wrecking everything in a very large impact area.

Last edited by ArmySGT.; 03-05-2016 at 01:42 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #65  
Old 03-04-2016, 06:23 AM
mmartin798 mmartin798 is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: Michigan
Posts: 659
Default

I have to stand corrected. I made an incorrect assumption about the 127mm rocket used on the Valkiri. After doing research, the Denel V3 is a copy of the AIM-9/MIM-72 Chaparral. As the AIM-9 is in the Morrow supply chain, a "dumbed down" version for the Valkiri is not unreasonable addition to the supply with little additional training needed for Project members handling them.
Reply With Quote
  #66  
Old 03-04-2016, 06:28 AM
.45cultist .45cultist is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 1,045
Default

Stats for heavy pieces can be useful if the KFS decides it needs more advanced tools to counter Morrow teams or even Krell, surely his minions haven't missed the expansion detailed in "Fall Back".
Reply With Quote
  #67  
Old 03-07-2016, 10:56 AM
cosmicfish cosmicfish is offline
Registered User
 
Join Date: Mar 2015
Posts: 477
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by ArmySGT. View Post
Um........MLRS can shoot rockets one at a time if desired. The rockets themselves are pretty precise with the launcher knowing it location with GPS and inertial navigation.
They are pretty precise (a) for artillery and (b) assuming that they have GPS. Artillery is not generally needed to be very precise and the control system on the MLRS warhead is engineering to that standard - you won't put one through a window without a heck of a lot of luck. And Morrow cannot plan on having GPS, perhaps just at first, perhaps not until someone creates a new space program. There are alternatives, but they quickly get ugly for missiles.

Quote:
Originally Posted by ArmySGT. View Post
Further, MLRS is used for counter battery fire and more importantly the "Deep fires" missions that the large 203mm guns used to perform........ hitting when the other guy can't hit back and raining hell on his rear area concentrations or movement corridors.
I don't see why TMP would be performing these kinds of long-range attacks unless we are talking about the thousands against thousands kind of conflict that TMP is intrinsically poorly positioned to fight. If you are targeting an enemy 20+miles away, how do you have good intelligence on who you are targeting, and what are the odds that they have conveniently isolated themselves from the kind of collateral damage you cannot afford? If you are in a counter-battery operation, you are either facing an enemy well beyond your ability to handle (i.e., LARGE) or you are facing an enemy that could be taken down by other tools and tactics.
Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT -6. The time now is 05:52 AM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.6
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.