Threat Presentations for Selected Battlefield Scenarios
Abstract
The ultimate direction of any battalion and company gunnery program must be focused towards winning on the future battlefield. To accomplish this task requires the melding of many individual, crew and unit skills. All of these, however, depend on two things, the ability to kill tanks and armored vehicles and the ability to survive. The ability to kill tanks/armored combat vehicles (ACVs) is based upon the science of gunnery and knowing that few ACVs are catastrophically destroyed by single, frontal rounds. The ability to survive is based on the tactical art of maneuver and position, so as best to be able to kill tanks and live to the next day. On the other hand, in day to day training, gunnery skills are emphasized on a sterile course run on range routes, firing engagements from predetermined positions against a known scenario. The value of the training is not based on how many (crew/tank) survives it tactical environment but is based on how many vehicles (tanks) distinguish, qualify, or bolo determined from hit/miss scores on these sterile qualification ranges. This collection of threat-based scenarios was developed to demonstrate a methodology for threat specifications and development by producing specific products to be used as standardized initiators for tank gunnery training and testing situations. Keywords: Soviet Army; Tactical scenario; Motorized rifle regiment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA221289
Entities
People
- Earl L. Doyle
Organizations
- Human Resources Research Organization