US Army Cancels Comanche Helo

Ron wrote:

True, but then the smartest option would probably be to skip the 155mm
rounds and just use the GMLRS and ATACMS. GMLRS' longer range when compared
to the current 155mm capability means you won't have to waste an ATACMS when
the target is in that range that exceeds the capability of the 155mm's (say
35-40 km) but also falls within the GMLRS max of around 75 km. Lay that
template down on a fluid mechanized battlefield and the area that results,
as measured from the FLOT, is going to put a band of about 30 km depth
beginning some 25 km the other side of the FLOT where your 155's can't
strike, and your ATACMS is being shot-short. With HIMARS ready to enter into
service (ISTR they were doing the troop trials a year or more ago) you are
guaranteed GMLRS availability across the spectrum, so the 155mm has no
advantage there either.



Be careful Kevin, dont want to have to call you Kurt Plummer

Kevin's in no danger of that as yet. He'd have to string a bunch of obscure
acronyms together without any breaks and then throw in a few even more obscure
(to all but him) pithy phrases that he'd made up, in a sentence that's a very
long paragraph in length. Oh, and the syntax is too conventional, he needs to
rearrange the order and make a few verbs into nouns (or vice versa). The above
is entirely too readable to qualify as Plummer-speak -- not only is Kevin's
thesis identified in the first sentence, but when you get to the end of the
paragraph you can still remember what the whole thing was about ;-)

Guy