| From: | IronRaven cyberraven@********.net |
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| Subject: | Sniper Pack |
| Date: | Fri, 10 Sep 1999 08:10:49 -0400 |
>OK, I'm with you, but surely you'd be better off giving some of the snipers
>SA/FA weapons, for suppression reasons, and hey, surely if it's shoot'n'rush,
For this kind of thing, I'd give the sniper's something like M-21s or
MSG-90s, with the spotters carrying autocarbines with GLs.
>Hang on - isn't this now a standard light infantry assault? ;-)))
Actually, no. I'm talking about using a short platoon or double squad to
make a company decide to go away. The MMGs and mortar are becuase I'm a
nasty cuss who believes in leaving behind an one-eyed, armless, legless
survivor to tell his superiors that it only lasted about ten seconds, and
to suggest that it might be better to take thier bat and ball and go home.
This is not a common technique, but a specialized one. A highly
specilized one. But one who's concept I like, mainly becuase I think that
part of the reason it is so hard to get the line military to deal with
sniper teams is becuase they are an independent element. (That, and the
"back shooting" thing, which doesn't bother me either.)
>I think what you propose is interesting, but counter-productive - one of the
Again, special application. What I illustrated would be a HUGE sniper
ambush. A more common one would be to use two or three sniper pairs and
maybe a FO to control a waypoint. If you have, at the regimental level, a
platoon of 10-12 sniper pairs, and can borrow or scrounge 5-6 FO teams, you
can observe a pretty large area this way with an amount of manpower equal
to a line platoon.
Anything the snipers alone can't deal with, the FO calls in the big guns
or airmobile grunts (for thsi to workk, they need to be ready to launch
PDQ).
Kevin Dole, aka CyberRaven, aka IronRaven, aka Steel Tengu
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