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#4179048 - 10/08/15 03:02 PM Never underestimate S-Draht  
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#4179113 - 10/08/15 05:46 PM Re: Never underestimate S-Draht [Re: Ronin_GE]  
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My guess is that Brad has a callsign that ends in a 1.


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#4180891 - 10/13/15 04:24 AM Re: Never underestimate S-Draht [Re: Ronin_GE]  
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reminds me of an exfil I lead from a hide position to a battle position at oh-dark-thirty - i was the protecting infantry for a tank company. we lead the column and came to a wire obstacle and we had to clear a lane for the tanks. amazingly it was not overwatched or the overwatchers were asleep. but what the hell, we had a whole company of M1's overwatching us. ar15

we cleared a lane just wide enough for an abrams, marked the edges of the lane with chemlights and i gave company commander instructions to pass - everyone MUST stay between the chemlights - i even suggested ground guides. well the XO didn't, few hours later they were still tangled up on one side and missed all the action.

never, ever try to just run over concertina wire with anything.




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#4181156 - 10/13/15 06:32 PM Re: Never underestimate S-Draht [Re: Hammer_RLG]  
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Originally Posted By: Hammer_RLG
reminds me of an exfil I lead from a hide position to a battle position at oh-dark-thirty - i was the protecting infantry for a tank company. we lead the column and came to a wire obstacle and we had to clear a lane for the tanks. amazingly it was not overwatched or the overwatchers were asleep. but what the hell, we had a whole company of M1's overwatching us. ar15

we cleared a lane just wide enough for an abrams, marked the edges of the lane with chemlights and i gave company commander instructions to pass - everyone MUST stay between the chemlights - i even suggested ground guides. well the XO didn't, few hours later they were still tangled up on one side and missed all the action.

never, ever try to just run over concertina wire with anything.





Beeing OPFOR on that EX could have been cool:(I forget com-discipline here) "FO...you wont believe what I see here. tanks and inf bunched up on our obstactle #3...yeah, no #%&*$#...can you give me 5 rounds ICM on that...great, thanks a lot..."
About 5 minutes later a guy with 2 white armbands will show up:" you, you, you aaand y... well, basicly everyone here, is doomed!" [i][/i]


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#4181371 - 10/14/15 04:05 AM Re: Never underestimate S-Draht [Re: Ronin_GE]  
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yeah but the opfor controller guys were still sleeping at that time of the morning. biggrin

we did have some contact in the hide position, but tanks with thermal sights can make short work of them.


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#4181638 - 10/14/15 06:40 PM Re: Never underestimate S-Draht [Re: Hammer_RLG]  
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Originally Posted By: Hammer_RLG
yeah but the opfor controller guys were still sleeping at that time of the morning. biggrin

we did have some contact in the hide position, but tanks with thermal sights can make short work of them.


A couple of big guns a even more MG can indeeb be a good deterand. (if not against observation, then against beeing engaged)

Reminds me of one of grandpa's war stories. Similar setup(overwatched obstacle against tanks)
He was in fact only a young boy(13) sent out with 5 others to stop the US 3rd army from rumbling along what now the Autobahn A4.
They set up a barricade over the road an put themselfes in BP close to the point where they expected the americans to stop.
Soon there was the sound of incomming armour on the road, so they kept there heads down till they heard the tanks stop.
When they raised their head again they made a quick count: 4x Panzerfaust + 6x rifle against 30+ US tanks.
The did the smart thing: waited till the americans passed by and then buggered off home throwing away weapons and uniforms biggrin


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#4181657 - 10/14/15 07:55 PM Re: Never underestimate S-Draht [Re: Ronin_GE]  
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Im glad they did the smart thing...but that reminds me of a time when I was in Hohenfels and my Weapons Squad managed to halt a Mechanized Company with a couple of M47 Dragons and very well camouflaged position...of course we had MILES gear on and way more "missiles"(those backblast simulation devices) than we would have under any actual combat condition, so the O/C allowed to reuse our two Dragon tubes until re ran out of "missiles".


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#4181673 - 10/14/15 08:32 PM Re: Never underestimate S-Draht [Re: Ronin_GE]  
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We did some runs in Grafenwöhr using the MILES (well, pretty similar to AGDUS)

Dragon (on the life range) make that funny popping sound :-)

But I still prefered our MILAN system. Only thing was that for MILES/AGDUS we had no back-blast simulation, we had to fire a smokeround* from the SigPi at the moment a "missle" was lauched.

*don't know the english word for that round, it paints streak of violet smoke into the air...reaching up about 20m directly pointy at your position. German name: "Rauchstrich-violett"


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#4181677 - 10/14/15 08:43 PM Re: Never underestimate S-Draht [Re: Ronin_GE]  
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The Dragon does have a distinct sound, Ive only fired one live round (in Grafenwoehr) but I enjoyed watching it go downrange, popping along. We transitioned to Javelins just before heading to Iraq in 2003.

We dont use flare guns to my knowledge...but instead use a hand-held flare that you would strike with your knee or tha palm of your hand and it would fire into the air, no smoke rounds though only cluster or parachute flares.


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#4185934 - 10/25/15 03:07 PM Re: Never underestimate S-Draht [Re: warrior2seven]  
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Originally Posted By: warrior2seven
My guess is that Brad has a callsign that ends in a 1.


LMAO, so true!

We had that problem in Baghdad on a night patrol. Run over the re-bar they said...



...and then we spent the rest of the night on overwatch while the dismounts tried to figure out which 'twiddly-stick' to pull out first to unlock the re-bar.

Maddening to say the least!


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#4185972 - 10/25/15 05:08 PM Re: Never underestimate S-Draht [Re: Ronin_GE]  
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Sounds like a "fun" thing to do in the middle of "Indian territory" ;-)

But you always laugh about it once you made it back to base without TIC...

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