There are currently no XM777 in the hands of the operations forces. In June or July the first will show up here at Ft Sill, for the cadre of the Cannoneer Course to ring out and start to develop TTP. Will there every be a 52” caliber tube? I can’t answer that. There is a plan for the eventual replacement of the 39 after the M982 ERGM comes on line. However, that would mean that it would probably not longer to be able going to able to be lifted by the MV-22 (you are adding more than 6 ½ feet of steel to the tube). You have hit on the one thing that artillerymen have been saying about artillery raids or air movement for the longest time. The prime movers are not going with the guns. So if the guns receives counter-battery fire they are sitting duck. You can’t lift them out under fire and they are to heavy to move by hand. CAX is kind of a funny unrealistic thing, A DS FA battalion normally supports a Maneuver regiment. At the stumps a DS BN supports a Bn, plus having a regiment’s plus air. If you couldn’t get fire because guns where displacing it sounds like a S-3 problem in the DS FA Bn. It is unusual to move more than 1 battery at a time. You would still get twice the artillery a Bn would normally get.
E5M Who are you with right now? I am on my B billet right now here at the school.
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God truly fights on the side with the best artillery
E5M Who are you with right now? I am on my B billet right now here at the school.
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God truly fights on the side with the best artillery