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Originally Posted by CharlieC
Remember it's very unusual for artillery pieces to deploy individually - a battery of 25 Pounder guns was 4 guns and back in WW1 many of the combatants used 6 gun batteries. If a target wasn't knocked out or thoroughly suppressed after 100 or so rounds were fired then the field guns were too light for the job and something larger needed to be used. The guns can't stay in battery for long since sound detection will identify the location of a battery when it fires and bring counter battery fire.
Regards, Charlie
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Nothing to do with Dave's model ... but as related to me by a Mobat crew near our camp in Cyprus as the Turkish tanks popped up on the horizon ... We have 1,000 rounds here, but we only ever fire three. After the first round, all the other tanks are asking "Who did That?" After the second round, they all say "He did!" Just rarely we stay there long enough to fire a third.
