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The matter of using MLRS for SEAD for AH's brings up
the question of whether it's sufficient for saturating the defences. While anti-personnel bomblets, like those used in MLRS, cluster bombs and such, typically are very effective, there are situations where this isn't the case. Soft terrain, like snow covered ground, or boggy ground, greatly reduces the effect of any impact fuzed arty, and small muntions in particular. Firstly, the submunitions may fail to detonate, as the decelearition when hitting the soft terrain may be insufficient to trigger them. Secondly, the effect of those that do detonate, is greatly reduced by the snow or bog absorbing the blast and sharpnel. And finally, there'll be no bouncing, which otherwise could give bomblets a kind of low-level airburst capability. Airburst by proximity fuzing is the obvious solution, but I think it'd be prohibitavely expensive with bomblets. In forested terrain, 'trigger-hair' impact fuzing may give canopy-level airbursts, but I guess that wouldn't be practical with bomblets either. Are there bomblets (anti-personnel submunitions) that actually work well in soft terrain? And if so, how do they accomplish it? |
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