Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Imperial War Museums" channel.

@3aMonolit One of the biggest mistakes amateurs make is assuming the terrain presents itself relative to the listed maximum effective range of the weapons. The terrain just doesn't work like that, not even in the desert. Slight elevation and relief, combined with wadis, treelines, berms, and obstacles all come into play to obscure fires. When you list max effective ranges as a normal skirmish factor, it exposes a lack of familiarity with terrain. This is especially true when talking about AKs having 400-700m range. It's just not a practical reality. Same for tank main guns. If you can't see much beyond 300-1200m, it doesn't matter if your max effective range in the book says 2000-4000m. This is how tanks die from Infantry using Artillery on-call, ATGMs, mines, obstacles to channelize, and closer range weapons.
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Even in every Light/Airmobile/Airborne Infantry Platoon in the US Army, you have Anti-Armor Weapons Specialists with the Javelin precision-guided AT missiles. Prior to that, it was the M47 Dragon ATGM. You also have Company and Battalion level Mortar sections. More importantly though, you have USAF TACPs/JTACs, Field Artillery Forward Observers from your Slice element Arty Battery, and Battalion Snipers-all of whom are highly-trained observers with optics and Radios connected with CAS and Artillery support. If you look at what happened to an entire Russian/Syrian Battle Group in 2018, for example, they attacked a small contingent of US Special Operations Forces embedded with Kurds in Syria. 6 hours later, the Russian/Syrian battle group lay in smoldering remains, charred corpses, and a few survivors running away making frantic cell phone calls on unsecured nets, all recorded by the US. They got JDAMs, Hellfires, and PGM Artillery rounds rained on them for 6 hours until they were attrited. No US/Kurdish casualties.
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@Sveta7 Bradleys entered into the interlocking fields of fire of numerically-superior T-72s and self-propelled howitzers, who were staged in their own training areas, set up in reverse-slope defense. Bradleys and Abrams should have been overwhelmed quite easily, but instead, they annihilated the Iraqi armor units as if it were a sport. These were Iraqi Army units who had 8 years of combat experience against Iran. US equipment was vastly-superior, but even more important was their training and initiative.
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There was an M113 variant with a large mortar turret in it back in the day. I would not want to be a mounted or dismounted soldier associated with any motorized/mechanized armor unit who didn't have net-centric air assets with dominance over the airspace. Reminds me of horse cavalry units charging in The Great War vs artillery, aerial recon, machineguns, and mines.
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@harrybyaqussamprayuga1756 Look up: Battle of Khasham 2018 It was openly reported in the presstitute brothels, then shoved down the memory hole because it was Trump’s WH authorizing the slaying of untold numbers of Russian Wagner mercenaries (Putin’s personal private military contractors). Task and Purpose, New York Times, Newsweek, Business Insider, Independent, etc. all reported it. I heard about it sooner than in the media.
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