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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 |
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Guy Alcala wrote:
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 Exactly exactly...I always thought it was fun...a few seemed to understand him so some of it must have made sense I guess...not much did to me...it was what, a couple of years ago?...three maybe?... -- -Gord. |
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![]() "Gord Beaman" wrote in message ... Exactly exactly...I always thought it was fun...a few seemed to understand him so some of it must have made sense I guess...not Oh, I could understand and follow him (just had to spend the effort deciphering the acronyms from context). Just that most of his proposals lacked robustness and all his presentations were deficient in clarity. For me it simply got to the point my time was worth more to me than the return. much did to me...it was what, a couple of years ago?...three maybe?... I would think longer than that... A quick search out of google shows his last posting as Aug 27, 2001 which was barely over a dozen lines and had but three acronyms and they were all common. |
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![]() "Ron" wrote in message ... Be careful Kevin, dont want to have to call you Kurt Plummer ![]() I about went blind towards the end of last summer: during one of the training missions one of the fake IDs I ran across was for one "Kurt Plummer". I have yet to confront the person who supplied those IDs about the sources for those names... |
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