Re: Level of Detail?

[Bill Garmer <bgarmer@tsc.net>]

At 03:26 AM 4/15/97 -0400, you wrote:
>In a message dated 97-04-15 03:05:18 EDT, you write:
>
>>	My main reason for the use of TOW's among Recon/Mars, and the
>>restriction of cannon to more dedicated units was that when the fighting
>>is over, you can rip out the TOW, put it in a shed, and then have a
>>normal MPV.  Turreted vehicles, tracked or wheeled, just aren't that
>>flexible.
>
>   YES!!!!!  Also, make sure that each TOW issued (just like in the USMC &
>Army) comes with the ground-mount tripod and sight system.  Just think of the
>ambush scenarios involving TWO positions - first opens fire to get enemy
>attention, he turns to orient on the first posit, you get a great flank shot
>from posit two.
>
>>	PS:  TOWS??  Has anyone with a different time period megawhoops used
>>different missiles?  In truth, it'd seem to me that for the time period
>>of the MP, the Russian version of the TOW (Sagger/Spigot), would be
>>easier to get. (Fewer controls on export, or at least many third world
>>counties to acquire them from.)
>>
>
>   Remember, civilian industries MAKE the TOW for the US Gvmn't.  So the
>Factory shuts down for Labor Day weekend.  Who's gonna know that people came
>in and ran off a few hundred?  (NOTE: This is an oversimplification!)

True - except for the fact that the US Military keeps tight records on the number of warheads.  The maker of the missile does not make the warheads they are provide as GFE (Government Furnished Equipment) so if some showed up missing there would be some serious questions.

Bill



>   And for the record, if I had to trust my life to Russian/Former Soviet
>missle technology, I WOULD be caught dead with a Sagger/Spigot.  Probably a
>crispy critter (burned to death).
>
>Scott Hann
>
>
>
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