11-27-2013, 05:51 PM
Retained energy is important in the long-range engagement. Even misses are effective when impacting rock or other hard material that you are using as cover.
Mountainous Environment
You receive enemy contact, far ambush from a PKM or 2, with SVD's and RPG's as the main effort. PKM's keep your head down, unable to assess the 3D's (distance, direction, disposition). While the PKM's keep you pinned, RPG's rain down upon you, with a considerable kill radius, as well as disorienting you and peppering you with fragmentation. Each impact reduces your combat capacity by some measure. Any exposed body part is engaged with aimed SVD fire.
Until you are able to place effective fire that does similar or worse to the enemy position, your options continue to erode. This is why shooting from positions and stand off from cover are so important if you are going to use small arms to solve this problem.
There's a way to insure yourself from getting into this type of mess, using basic infantry techniques, but most units don't have the discipline or leadership experience to do it, and gun teams get the most work out. It also slows down movement considerably, but it works.
The weapon systems that are used to solve these problems are belt-fed, sniper rifles, and mortars. This is excluding CAS from the equation.
Mountainous Environment
You receive enemy contact, far ambush from a PKM or 2, with SVD's and RPG's as the main effort. PKM's keep your head down, unable to assess the 3D's (distance, direction, disposition). While the PKM's keep you pinned, RPG's rain down upon you, with a considerable kill radius, as well as disorienting you and peppering you with fragmentation. Each impact reduces your combat capacity by some measure. Any exposed body part is engaged with aimed SVD fire.
Until you are able to place effective fire that does similar or worse to the enemy position, your options continue to erode. This is why shooting from positions and stand off from cover are so important if you are going to use small arms to solve this problem.
There's a way to insure yourself from getting into this type of mess, using basic infantry techniques, but most units don't have the discipline or leadership experience to do it, and gun teams get the most work out. It also slows down movement considerably, but it works.
The weapon systems that are used to solve these problems are belt-fed, sniper rifles, and mortars. This is excluding CAS from the equation.