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Artillery
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Artillery needs A1 mobility.
Although current military operations are much different from those of the past, where concentrating indirect firepower on enemy formations was part of the routine, artillery has not lost any of its importance. However, while the number of systems involved is obviously smaller, as artillery fire missions are mostly aimed at small targets which have to be hit with surgical precision in order to limit collateral damage as much as possible, the mobility requirements have sky-rocketed.
Ease of deployment, and therefore mobility in today's context, does not only mean to be able to move quickly from one point to another (not the least to evade counter-battery fire), but also do this 'properly' without unnecessarily destroying existing infrastructures. Forces now have to deal with the constraints of current theatres of operation which often feature narrow roads and bridges that are unable to withstan...See the full content of this document
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